Next month, I sit my first ever Irish driving exam; and I become that sad national caricature – the thirty-something going for a first full licence. I am disconsolate. I’ve been driving (in the US) since I was 14 years old, legally since I was 15 (on what you might call a Texas provisional) and [...]
Dr James Reilly, GP and Fine Gael spokesperson on Health details what he would do if he were Minister for Health to solve Ireland’s many healthcare problems. The problems of health are myriad but basically it comes down to two issues. On the one hand we have increasing demand and on the other hand we [...]
Mr Fionan O’Cuinneagáin outlines the current structure for GP training and how places need to be increased to meet future demand from demographic trends in the population and among doctors. There are 13 GP Specialist Training Programmes in Ireland, offering 120 training places per annum. Due to the changing and complex nature of general practice, [...]
Terence Cosgrave writes that at a time of great change in our health service, GPs are at the coalface of community care and must play a major role in directing the necessary changes. As this year’s annual general meeting of the Irish College of General Practitioners convenes in Galway, the challenges facing the profession have [...]
In last week’s Irish Medical Times, we carried on our front page a story about older people who are in ‘de facto imprisonment’ in nursing homes — held there without any legal basis and despite their own wishes. The story quoted Dr Shaun O’Keeffe, a Consultant Geriatrician from the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Galway’s [...]
Tourism is a disease of the soul. It’s the third fundament-alism. It drives homogeneity across the globe like a weed that devegetates every landscape it encounters. And it’s the habitat of the obnoxious semi-rich, who would rather have things exactly as they are at home, except that people they meet should be even more grateful [...]
Dr Mark Hannon believes that in a country as small as Ireland, we must consider our health service from a national, and not a local, point of view. I recently travelled to Germany for a few days for a meeting. Now, we all know about Germany’s reputation for ruthless efficiency and economic zeal, so I [...]
Dr Mick Molloy on the challenges facing the new goverment as it faces into an era of less money and even higher expectations from the public on health I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of [...]
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