The total value of an 18-month Primary Care Reimbursement Services (PCRS) managed services contract is €2,663,572 plus VAT, it has emerged.

Thirty-one acute hospitals and some Primary Community and Continuing Care (PCCC) areas are engaging with a process to implement ‘open disclosure’, IMT reports.

The Government is aiming to have Vhi Healthcare authorised by the end of 2014, Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has said.

The National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 progress report outlines 63 actions that are implemented through its ‘five pillars’, reports Lloyd Mudiwa, in the first of a two-part series looking at current drug treatment services in Ireland.

People with chronic insomnia show more ‘plasticity’ and activity than good sleepers in the part of the brain that controls movement, research has found.

Diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease can often be delayed, particularly in patients who have a good many non-motor symptoms at the start, Gary Culliton reports in his latest Clinical Update.

The Departure of Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, precipitated by critical comments from Minister Leo Varadkar, could be construed as the opening salvos of the next Fine Gael leadership campaign, suggests Dr Ruairi Hanley

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent European Court of Justice case that considered whether a refusal to provide paid leave equivalent to maternity leave or adoptive leave to a woman who has had a child through surrogacy arrangements offends against the principle of equal treatment of male and female workers under European Law.

Dear Editor, Regarding your recent news item “GMS patients ‘worth double’” (IMT, March 21, 2014), it is time your paper drilled down into the spin the Minister and his ‘experts’ are shovelling out to you.

Dear Editor, I continue to be bemused by the weekly repetition of various images of the Minister for Health in your publication.