Dara Gantly looks at the prospect of resolving the competition issue so as to allow full negotiations to take place on a new GP contract and the transformation agenda.
The death of intelligent Ireland
February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr Ruairi Hanley got the ‘Fore’ star treatment during a recent drive through the Midlands, discovering our wonderful monastic heritage and reaffirming our unique public house traditions.
Appeal against conviction for baby’s manslaughter
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a Court of Appeal case in England in which a woman appealed against her conviction for the manslaughter of her baby son after medical experts disagreed.
Negotiations are needed for any chance of reform
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, In your recent issue (Irish Medical Times. February 10, 2012, http://bit.ly/x5cK57), Carol Boate of the Competition Authority is quoted as saying that the state and consumers can still get more value for money (VFM) from primary care services. It is difficult to understand her logic in relation to general practitioner services.
Referral template is the future of primary care
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, Last week, the ICGP and GPIT group launched their national referral template. The document aims to streamline the referral process, improve communication between primary and secondary care and lay down the foundations for the development of electronic patient referrals.
Mindfulness could undermine whole consultation process
February 23, 2012 By 9 Comments
Dear Editor, Mindfulness is a new relaxation technique currently being endorsed by the ICGP and promoted as a stress reduction method to avoid burnout in general practice. Whilst the altruism and intention is certainly admirable, it should be noted that mindfulness is ‘an Eastern meditative technique adopted directly from Buddhism’.
Giving researchers a voice in policy making
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr Muiris Houston examines the potential for the new Irish Academy of Medical Sciences to give Ireland a ‘route-one’ input path for EU biomedical research policy.
Ireland’s call to health émigrés
February 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
Dara Gantly looks forward to the Minister for Health’s pledge to bring our medical professionals back home.
Our 6,000-year-old planet
February 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
With one Minister for Health not believing in evolution, while another evolves his own criticism of the health services, Dr Ruairi Hanley is left scratching his sore head.
And baby concierge makes three
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr Muiris Houston discovered through reality TV that if you find yourself ‘pregnant in heels’, the choice some are making is to call in the baby concierge.
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