Wash up...The Long Fellow...No honours...Stub it out...
Thursday November 22 2007
What is the sound of one hand clapping? I don't know, but I do know the results of no hand-washing. MRSA. Hand-washing policies can reduce hospital-acquired infections by at least 50pc and up to 85pc.
Naida Grunden covers the topic at length in her upcoming book, 'The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Applying Toyota-based Improvements to Healthcare'. It tells how hospitals produced dramatic and sustained improvements by learning from the car-maker Toyota. Wash your hands.
KEVIN DEVITTE
WESTPORT, CO MAYO
It is heartening to see at long last the good name of a great man, Eamon de Valera, has been restored. I refer to the book, 'Judging Dev' by Diarmaid Ferriter. Dev was the one who shaped and gave hope to a struggling fledgling State. Dev deserves his place in the sun.
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I listened to Paddy Harte on RTE Radio One expressing his approval of the UK honours system. He asked who would turn down the offer of an OBE. Well Paddy, I would turn it it down. Why? Because I don't believe in it. As a socialist and republican it is against everything I stand for and for many thousands like me.
PAUL DORAN
CLONDALKIN, DUBLIN 22
I note Professor Luke Clancy of Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) is back trying to bully Brian Cowen into adding two euros to the price of a packet of cigarettes. Prof Clancy says he is trying to "encourage" smokers to quit but he is in fact attempting to force them to do his bidding. In Ireland, tobacco products are 86pc more expensive than the European average and nearly a third of the population choose to exercise their right to smoke. He goes well beyond his brief in trying to pressurise our Finance Minister.
JOHN MALLON
MAYFIELD, CORK
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