Prof James Paul O’Neill, Professor of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery at Beaumont and the RCSI, National Lead for World Head and Neck Cancer Day, discusses the latest in diagnostics and treatments.

Mr Patrick Sheahan, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Head & Neck Surgeon at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital and Langford Hall Medical Centre in Cork, examines the most common site for head & neck cancer — the larynx — and the site with the fastest rising incidence, the oropharynx.

The NAGP says it is ready to look past its acrimonious relationship with Health Minister Dr Leo Varadkar for the sake of Irish general practice and the health service, CEO Chris Goodey tells Lloyd Mudiwa.

The NAGP has behaved like a ‘lawless’ opposition party seeking to undermine Government policy, the Minister of Health has suggested.

Doctors have lost trust in the Executive to provide a reasonable working environment, according to the IMO, which claimed the Minister for Health’s promises to address the issue have proved to be worthless.

The National Director of Specialist Training in General Practice at the ICGP will give attendees at a forthcoming medical careers fair in Dublin a glimpse of who will be the Irish GP in 2025.

Minister for Health Dr Leo Varadkar and Minister for Primary Care Kathleen Lynch have announced the start of registration for the free GP care for the over-70s, which will commence on August 5.

HIQA is due to carry out a number of unannounced inspections of hospitals to gauge compliance with nutrition and hydration guidelines and the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare.

The fact that advertised consultant posts were attracting “no applicants or very few applicants” had undermined the likelihood the new salary scale would be effective, consultants have warned.

The Medical Council’s new CEO Bill Prasifka previously played a role in the easing of restrictions on advertising by doctors, and also finally settled a dispute with the IMO over allegations of price fixing, reports Dara Gantly.