Pioneering US medic Dr Lynn Holden tells Aoife Connors about her novel project to open up entry to medicine to the socially disadvantaged

Professional competence (PC) will impose a significant administrative cost on the ICGP, College Chairman Dr John Delap has told Irish Medical Times. “If you consider the issue of logging and auditing the competence assurance process for 3,500 doctors, then there is obviously going to be a significant administrative expense in dealing with that,” he said.

The IMO believes the CA is incorrect regarding its negotiating powers, writes Aoife Connors

Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has described some of the healthcare-related cases in her 2009 Annual Report as “shocking and unacceptable”, reports Mary Anne Kenny

Dr Paul Heslin writes an open letter to Minister John Gormley suggesting a very simple solution that could save money, the precious time of emergency care workers and many lives

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Court of Appeal case in the UK, in which the Court allowed an appeal by a former senior health executive against a decision of the High Court that her severance package was unreasonably generous

With changes emerging as to how Revenue focuses on locums, tax expert Geraldine Corcoran looks at the continued uncertainty over the issue facing the medical profession

Continuing our series on the Irish Healthcare Awards, Valerie Ryan looks back at how, for the first time in Ireland, an entire hospital campus was declared smoke-free

In the first of a two-part series, Susan Delaney, Irish Hospice Foundation, offers some advice to GPs on how to deal sensitively with bereaved patients and help them through their loss