Gary Culliton takes a national snapshot of some of the reasons behind GPs’ lack of engagement with the primary care team process.
Parents and GPs fail on obesity
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Parents are poor at recognising their children’s weight problems, yet GPs, who are ideally placed for a pivotal early intervention role, are failing to act, a new study shows.
Priority should be lack of access to treatment
January 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
Dear Editor, Prof Colin Bradley is, of course, correct to highlight the problem of high levels of benzodiazepines use in Ireland (‘Tackling benzodiazepine abuse largely in GPs’ hands’, IMT, December 16, 2011, http://bit.ly/xhdVdj). Continuing efforts to educate GPs around the issue are commendable.
€6.7 million saving on the vaccines scheme
January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. The estimated full-year savings on payments to GPs in respect of immunisation services is €6.7 million. This includes approximately €1 million savings on the childhood immunisation programme, the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has said.
Blow to PCTs in the North East
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Dara Gantly. More than 100 GPs from the North East have written to Minister of State Róisín Shortall requesting that they be “completely disassociated” from any of the primary care teams (PCTs) in the region, which they feel are distracting them from caring for their patients.
A very wary Christmas
December 16, 2011 By 3 Comments
The threatened closure of community nursing units due to safety concerns should be a salutary warning for GPs about to come under the eye of HIQA, says Dr Ruairi Hanley.
IMO GPs set to link up with Operation Transformation
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. IMO GP members will hit our TV screens and radio waves in January in an effort to highlight the growing incidence of type II diabetes, as part of a joint initiative with RTÉ’s Operation Transformation.
Dentists ‘not reason’ for extra GP burdens
December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Dara Gantly. The Irish Dental Association (IDA) has assured GPs that its members were not behind new measures requiring doctors to verify the medical history of medical card patients seeking basic dental care.
GPs are not root cause of benzodiazepine abuse
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, I was somewhat dismayed at the article entitled ‘GPs need awareness about benzodiazepines’ (Irish Medical Times, November 4, 2011, http://bit.ly/s9LP3h), quoting the Professor of General Practice Colin Bradley.
The needle is not the point for the IMO
November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Instead of going ‘GUBU’ over pharmacists taking on the flu vaccination, Dr Ruairi Hanley suggests the IMO needs to tackle our unprecedented and bizarre hospital overcrowding
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