The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has appointed international design practice BDP as architects for the new children’s hospital on the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin 8.

HIQA has started a nationwide public consultation on its health technology assessment (HTA) of public access defibrillation.

Valerie Ryan begins a series of articles on how doctors can obtain CPD credits from a new online initiative on the management of hypertension in primary care.

Dr Dominic Hegarty, Consultant in Pain Management & Neuromodulation at CUH and Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, UCC, examines a relatively new analgesic agent from a clinical and practical perspective for the treatment of chronic pain.

The successive rounds of cuts in GP fees under the FEMPI Act has forced many GPs to consider what a few years previously would have been unimaginable: forced economic emigration.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Equality Tribunal case in which a man who suffers from the HIV virus made a complaint of discrimination against a dental practice after he was refused further treatment because of his condition.

Bill Maher is set to leave his post as Group CEO of the West North West Hospitals Group (WNWHG) to head up the RCSI Hospitals Group, Dublin North East, it has been announced.

A new Finnish study has added to the evidence for the protective effect of physical activity for later mental health in women.

Fees awarded to GPs to provide sutures are one-twentieth of those charged by hospitals and do not cover the cost of performing the procedure, Cork City GP Dr Mary Favier has claimed.

The numbers of GPs who attended last week’s historic protest outside the Dáil to urge the Government to reverse the FEMPI cuts would have been much higher than the estimated 250-strong crowd who gathered at Molesworth Street, had single-handed GPs countrywide attended, a Navan GP has said.