The times certainly are a-changin’ in the world of medical publishing.

Legislation will be brought forward and enacted this year to enable staggered or periodic payments in medical negligence cases, the Department of Justice has said.

The lack of clarity on the new consultant salary proposals and the attempt to change the terms for Clinical Directors confirm that HSE proposals “cannot be trusted”, the IHCA has stated.

The HSE has submitted proposals to the Department of Health for the re-advertising of primary care centres (PCCs) to be provided under operational lease arrangements with the private sector, IMT has learned.

Dara Gantly asks whether it is time to enact legislation to ensure safe staffing levels, based upon nationally agreed standard dependency tools, are present in our health service.

The Department of Health is conducting a review of the current primary care model of service delivery in order to devise a renewed model expected to be implemented over three years, IMT reports.

A new Department of Health guidance document imposes no time limit in carrying out a medical procedure under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (IOG) has pointed out.

Dear Editor, It would seem to me that Minister of Health Leo Varadkar’s medical training is aiding him in his brief, as I believe it did in his previous ministry.

ICGP members are set to be surveyed this month to help “closely inform” the College’s Council on possible strategic objectives to be included in an “effective and representative successor” to the Strategic Plan of the College, IMT reports.

Health leaders and managers are to learn to be as cool as the GAA hurling championship winning Kilkenny cats that attended the school of Brian Cody.