The proposed relocation of the Department of Health (DoH) to Miesian Plaza, the former Bank of Ireland HQ in Baggot Street, is set to commence in Quarter 1 of 2017, but there is likely to be an overlap when the Ministry will be running both its new office and the current one at Hawkins House.

A “very significant amount of bullying” of NCHDs is initiated by paramedics or nurses, and the Irish Medical Council (IMC) is due to raise the issue with the nursing and midwifery regulator when the two organisations meet in a week’s time, IMT reports.

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There is a risk the European Commission could refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) again for failure to comply with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD), particularly the 48-hour working week, the Department of Health (DoH) has warned.

A recruitment pause within the HSE would mean hospitals being “condemned to continue to operate at occupancy levels we know are unsafe”, the IMO has warned.

The Medical Council will look to raise with the new Minister for Health the need for all hospitals to produce clinical outcomes data regularly as a mechanism for boosting patient safety, Irish Medical Times reports.

European Junior Doctors (EJD) has joined other European and international medical associations in calling for public healthcare services and public health policy to be excluded from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

A new minor surgery initiative should enable 10,000 procedures that would have been on hospital waiting lists to be fast-tracked in general practice this year, according to the HSE.

Proposals in relation to the further availability of emergency contraception through pharmacies are still being considered, the HSE said last week, as it stressed that emergency contraception was not covered under the recently announcement pilot pharmacy-based Minor Ailment Scheme (MAS).

Total expenditure on the pledged move of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) from Holles Street to the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus has been €4.