The role of the smaller or local hospital in the Brave New World of centralisation and reconfiguration will be debated at the IHCA Annual Conference in Adare, reports Gary Culliton There were 2,800 acute surgical cases annually handled at Nenagh, Ennis and Limerick when the Teamwork report was carried out in 2006.

IHCA President Dr Margo Wrigley tells Gary Culliton that slashing the health budget even further and continuing a haphazard reconfiguration plan spell disaster for the health service The President of the IHCA Dr Margo Wrigley has sharply criticised HSE proposals for measuring consultants’ work, and has described them as a “huge irritation”.

Prof Eoin O’Brien writes that Irish medical practice must dispel its ambivalent attitude to the management of hypertension by overcoming therapeutic inertia so as to obtain control of blood pressure Projections indicate that the Irish population aged 65 years or older will grow by around 107,771 persons in the period 1996-2011, to represent in total about 14 per cent of

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North Dublin GP Dr Marcus de Brun believes the current ruling establishment has breached the Constitution so many times that it is high time they were replaced I would like to propose a solution to the present economic, social and health crisis that the Irish State presently finds itself in.

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We will have to ‘box clever with reduced resources’ to make an ageing society work, Prof Des O’Neill tells Gary Culliton ahead of the 6th Congress of the EUGMS in Dublin this week The key focus at this week’s Annual Congress of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) in Dublin has been to make the licensing of medicines more

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