Annual Report 2010 - St. James's Hospital

Corporate Reports I Introduction from the Chairman 2010
Many of the projects that are a necessary part of that goal
continued to make progress over the year. The Academic
Medical Centre, Trinity Health, has the potential to raise the
standards of clinical services and medical education and
research to new heights in Ireland, and to make Trinity and
its teaching hospitals an internationally competitive Centre of
Excellence in healthcare and in the search for new treatments.
It is now fully under way and deserves every support.
The hospital is also progressing towards becoming a major
cancer centre across a range of specialities. The Radiation
Oncology Centre, which is about to open, will contribute
signifi cantly to this.
There are other developments in the area of care of the
elderly that are rapidly moving ahead. The Mercer’s Institute
for Successful Ageing will provide a model of the advanced
teaching, research and clinical services that will be required to
cope with the increasing ageing population. The Longitudinal
Study on Ageing, a groundbreaking research project headed
by Rose Anne Kenny, will throw further light on the problems
related to ageing and will point the way to their solution.
Advances in developing and advanced Stroke service over
the past year represent another important step in combating
diseases that commonly affl ict the elderly.
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