By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dara Gantly wonders whether the two ‘wise men’ from the east will come bearing gifts for hospitals in the West and Mid-West.

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.

If reference pricing and generic substitution were so important in 2009, how is it we are still waiting for anything definite to happen from Hawkins House, asks Dr Muiris Houston.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent case from Australia in which a medical practitioner sought an order striking out an allegation brought against him concerning an alleged relationship with one of his female patients some 18 years previously.

Dear Editor, The report on the quality of drinking water for 2010, recently published by the Environmental Protection Agency, is very good news.

Dear Editor, I am sorry that Dr David Slattery (Irish Medical Times letters pages, November 25, http://bit.

By Aoife Connors.

By Gary Culliton.