By Lloyd Mudiwa. Poor communication is the top risk to healthcare in more than 99 per cent of all general practices, a new analysis by the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has shown.
On the front line in the battle for health literacy
January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pat Kelly speaks with Dr Brendan Clune, GP spokesperson for the MSD Health Literacy campaign, about how improving health literacy in general practice can positively influence patient care.
The solution is elementary, my dear Hanley
January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, I’d like to wish Dr Ruairi Hanley a belated happy Christmas and a constructive New Year. He’s to be congratulated for his columns and especially for supporting and staying with the plight of the Bahraini doctors. Many in our comfortable middle-class profession would have uncritically allowed the RCSI to hold onto its views [...]
Tackling benzodiazepine abuse largely in GPs’ hands
December 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
Dear Editor, I am sorry that Dr David Slattery (Irish Medical Times letters pages, November 25, http://bit.ly/vtYxMs) feels that statements attributed to me in the article by Lloyd Mudiwa (IMT, November 4, 2011, http://bit.ly/s9LP3h) are a slur on the quality of general practice being provided by GPs across the country in treating anxiety disorders. This [...]
GPs key to cash-strapped EU healthcare services
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Dara Gantly. Countries faced with difficult decisions regarding obtaining the best value for reduced healthcare budgets should look to general practice to deliver acceptable, cost effective and proven healthcare, the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice and Family Medicine (EURACT) has urged.
Bill promotes ‘individual over collective’ ideals
November 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
By Aoife Connors. The IMO has warned that provisions in the Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011 must not jeopardise or act as a disincentive to the formation or expansion of groups and partnerships as envisaged in the Primary Care Strategy.
HSE at fault over PCT uptake — ICGP
November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. The “top-down” approach by HSE management towards the involvement of GPs in primary care teams (PCTs) has been identified as a “perceived barrier” to participation, the ICGP has stated in a new report.
Further reductions now loom under FEMPI Act
November 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. The Department of Health is again seeking written submissions from GPs regarding the effect of reductions in payments made under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Act 2009.
Target set for HIQA GP inspections
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. The inspection of primary care premises will be coming under HIQA’s remit during the lifetime of this Government, the Minister for Health has conformed in the Dáil.
Clock ticking on training places
November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Some of those on the GP training schemes have been struggling for the past 15 months to secure further employment in the health service, Irish Medical Times has learned.
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