By Gary Culliton.

Marie Kehoe-O’Sullivan, Director of Safety and Quality Improvement at HIQA, tells Dara Gantly how the Authority can help support GPs in using the new national standards to improve their practice.

With a year and a half of experience behind it, Dara Gantly reports on how the Caredoc Community Intervention Team is doing the arithmetic on patient care in the community, ahead of the IMT GP Practice Management Seminar this weekend.

Dara Gantly on what Ireland can learn from the Mid Staffordshire inquiry.

Dear Editor, I note with interest the responses from various doctors in IMT of April 5, 2013 (‘Objections to wait room poster’, http://bit.

Dear Editor, We have noted a recent report in Irish Medical Times (‘VAT reduction sought on NRT patches’, April 12, 2013, http://bit.

Dear Editor, I was planning to cycle to the ICGP AGM on Friday, May 10th.

Following the death of Margaret Thatcher, Dr Ruairi Hanley explores his own conflicting views on the Iron Lady’s legacy to Ireland and the globe.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which a patient with a psychiatric illness challenged the lawfulness of his detention in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.

Low testosterone levels may herald the subsequent development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in men, suggests research published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.