Beaumont has become the first Irish hospital to employ Physician Associates (PAs), IMT has learned.

Honoured with a presentation to his daughter’s fellow Montessori pupils, Dr Ruairi Hanley wishes the children were correct in believing that all doctors had to do was make sick people better.

Gary Culliton says health reform requires increased resources for general practice.

A new report on alcohol legislation has urged that provisions be included for “robust labelling” and a new code of conduct.

The Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (IOG) has called for the implementation of the 10 recommendations put forward by the clinical review team of six consultant obstetricians led by the Institute’s Chair Dr Peter Boylan.

The IHCA has welcomed the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee’s acknowledgement that medical indemnity insurance costs are a strategic challenge for the health sector and that costs are prohibitively expensive for many medical consultants.

An unreformed adversarial system would force medical professionals to practise defensively, which would in turn add costs and delays to the health system and the risk of over-treatment, the IMO has warned.

The Irish medical fraternity has joined the world in expressing grief, condolences, and concern for the Berkeley balcony collapse victims.

The new Chairman of St James’s Hospital (SJH) has said the hospital’s scale affords opportunities to take an all-island shared approach to the provision of highly specialist services, “such as the treatment of rare diseases — including rare cancers — where critical mass is key to best outcomes”.

The closing date for submissions on a new cancer strategy document is July 24.