Dear Editor, It is beyond belief that sources indicate that Indicative Drugs Savings Scheme may be scrapped. This scheme has helped many doctors transform general practice in Ireland, specifically * The provision/upgrading of premises. * The provision of practice equipment (ECGs, defibrillators, Reflotrons, spirometers, audiometers, INRs, 24-hour blood pressure monitors, Holter monitors, Dexa scanners, ultrasound [...]
Dear Editor, The State pension will be a crucial issue in the coming election for many of the 460,000 pensioners who are dependent on it as their main source of income. Over one-third of these pensioners is surviving on the non-contributory pension of just €200 per week, despite the constantly rising cost of living. Age [...]
Dear Editor, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is coming under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, and the HSE’s immediate standard response is to commission another internal report to establish ‘what’s wrong’. The HSE’s veritable library of previously-commissioned reports should have indicated long before now the ‘ticking time bomb’ that exists in [...]
Colin Kerr says that especially at a time of unprecedented prosperity, it is unacceptable that the care of the most vulnerable section of our society does not reach the highest standard We all want our parents, family and loved ones to be treated with respect. This is especially the case as they get older. In [...]
Back in the good old days of the Leaving Certificate, when all that worried us was the points system, job applications seemed as far away as getting into Lillie’s on a Saturday night without being asked for identification. However, we all somehow managed to negotiate the treacheries of the “Leaving” and to make our way [...]
In our front page story of 2 February we reported that Dr James Barry admitted to committing ‘tiny peccadillos’ which resulted in his being struck off by the Medical Council. Dr Barry has asked us to point out that he admitted to “committing a tiny peccadillo (singular) which should have attracted an admonition but not [...]
As politicians, many of them doctors, gear up for the election, Colin Kerr says voters may feel the health system is in such a mess that it does not matter who is in power It may be cold outside, but spring is in the air and with it the thoughts of our politicians are turning [...]
Dear Editor, The decision by the tobacco industry and others to abandon their challenge at the last minute to the legislation which would enable the Minister for Health and Children to ban the advertising of tobacco products at point of sale, underscores the cynicism of this disreputable industry. It is now clear that the tobacco [...]
The latest Irish Times/TNS mrbi opinion poll confirms something this writer has long suspected– that support for the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat option is softer than we have been led to believe. But the Rainbow alternative, while consolidating its improving levels of support, is still in danger of being left out in the political cold. Although [...]
Frustration at the moment is palpable and it is making life easy for radio presenters, as there is so much health-related material out there which they do not even have to research to find. Members of the public are coming out in droves with their stories. One particularly heartfelt story concerned a woman in her [...]
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