Terence Cosgrave says that with no backing from the Government, Mary Harney’s fate as Health Minister is sealed. Is there any point now in Minister Mary Harney continuing? There had been a reasonable argument put forward heretofore that Harney had some reforming ideas and that she was willing to take the inevitable political fallout from [...]
Rory Hafford gives us a step-by-step guide to managing potentially difficult interviews with members of the media. A few years ago, I was in Monaco for the World Vaccination Conference. It was the same day that the Andrew Wakefield MMR report was released, which allegedly found a link between the vaccine and autism. The great [...]
Dr Helen McNamee passed away in April of this year. She will be remembered by many for the contribution she made to the health and happiness of colleagues and patients . We owe a lot to the William Stokes Faculty of the Irish College of General Practitioners. Not only do you get a nice lunch [...]
A doctor can be reported to the Council for misconduct in violation of traffic rules e.g. parking fines, speeding or any other civil issue not related to medical practice. These civil offences should not be seen as misconduct as they do not have any medical function and the doctor will have been punished by the [...]
The following is a copy of a letter sent last Thursday to Mr Eddie Sullivan of the Department of Health and Children, in relation to capitation payment for people over 70 in the GMS: Dear Mr Sullivan, I am writing to you to make a submission in relation to capitation payment for persons over 70 [...]
Ann Brizzell, Solicitor with Beauchamps Solicitors, reports on the terms of the Coroners Bill 2007, which will consolidate and extend the law relating to coroners. Currently, under the Coroners Act 1962 (1962 Act), all sudden, unexplained, violent and unnatural deaths must be reported to the coroner. The purpose of a coroner’s inquest is to establish [...]
Greg Baxter looks at the suggestions to ease emergency department overcrowding from a report by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Last spring, the American College of Emergency Physicians published a task force report on emergency department (ED) overcrowding, and the primary cause of overcrowding – which is boarding. The reasons the College pursued the [...]
New research has shown that patients who always attend the same primary care physician receive better care when it comes to cancer. The study, which was published in Archives of Internal Medicine, evaluated the medical records of nearly 2,000 state Medicaid recipients in the US state of North Carolina who were aged 50 and older [...]
Dr Paul Heslin writes that the stresses of working within the Irish medical system can mean that it is often the doctors who need treatment. Okay, so I am renovating the surgery and the resulting confusion may be the reason why the lab results for Joe are missing. Joe is a private patient and he [...]
Special correspondent Dara Gantly concludes his two-part analysis of the hurdles facing doctors establishing their careers in general practice. Improving your lot as an establishing GP would be a difficult task if all one could do was work the current system. Important as this is, perhaps the system itself needs fixing? How, for example, can [...]
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