Selected Articles
Below is a selection of recent articles by Eoin Bassett which are available for download. Please choose from one of the article categories on the right or click on the title of any article below to download a full pdf.
Health
Access the issue
The recently launched National Intercultural Health Strategy aims to address issues of access to the health services for ethnic minority groups and improve the way their healthcare needs are dealt with. But money has yet to be earmarked for the plan.
Health Services Review, May 2008
Homeless strategy down and outTwo years ago State agencies and NGOs believed the momentum existed to eliminate long-term homelessness. Now funding shortfalls mean new projects have been postponed indefinitely while faith in the 2010 target evaporates.
Health Services Review, April 2008
Laser surgery eye openerThe number of clinics providing eye laser surgery in Ireland has quadrupled in the past five years and the boom has led to concerns among ophthalmologists about patient safety.
Health Services Review, March 2008
Restoring the faithIn the wake of the Portlaoise disaster, and amid opposition to the Government's cancer care plan, how does declining public faith in the health services affect the programme for change and is there a democratic deficit to be addressed?
Health Services Review, March 2009
Facing a crisisThe country’s sexual assault treatment units are in crisis. Lack of funding, staff shortages and closures are badly affecting these crucial services and forcing victims of sexual assault to travel across the country for forensic examination and treatment.
Health Services Review, June 2007
Bugs in the systemIreland is one of the few EU countries without a national surveillance system of healthcare-associated infections, even though this is required under EU law. With high levels of MRSA in Irish hospitals and rising rates of Clostridium difficile, is it time to go from hand washing to hand wringing, or is a successful multidisciplinary approach a near-future reality?