Aoife Connors speaks with IMO Vice-President Dr Ronan Boland on the highs and lows of the past year and on what lies ahead, as he takes on the IMO Presidency.

2010 was a momentous year in many ways.

‘Intrusive overregulation’ by HIQA has been slammed by the Chief Executive of the Irish Medical Organization (IMO).

Throughout history and still today, public health is a measure of the value we place upon health in our population, writes IMO PHD Committee Chairman Dr Paul McKeown.

Claire Camilleri, IMO International Affairs Officer, examines two revisions of EU Directives that will undoubtedly have repercussions for the medical profession in Ireland.

Minister for Health Dr James Reilly will see for himself what is written on the IMO’s ‘Prescription for Change’ at the union’s AGM this weekend in Killarney.

Dara Gantly on some of the IMO’s ‘Prescriptions for Change’.

The Chief Executive of the IMO has warned that the two rounds of cuts introduced by the Financial Emergency Measures in Public Interest (FEMPI) Act have put many GPs in serious financial difficulties, with the current cash flow crisis placing some on the “verge of bankruptcy”.

By Dara Gantly.

By Dara Gantly.