Prof Pierce Grace reviews a fascinating book on Georgian Dublin, which explores the social, political and indeed medical worlds inhabited by the ‘citizens’ of the capital in the 1700s and early 1800s ‘For Dublin can be heaven With coffee at eleven And a stroll in Stephen’s Green.

The HSE next year plans to refine the definitions of existing metrics and extend the range of metrics following a review of the Irish Maternity Indicator System (IMIS), in collaboration with staff in maternity units.

HIQA has revealed the scope of the initial proposed National Patient Experience Survey in 2017 will be the 40 public acute hospitals countrywide for all patients discharged over a one-month period.

Multidisciplinary teams need to be grown at emergency departments (EDs) to enable some patients to go home without ever having to be admitted to hospitals, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) Annual Scientific Meeting has been told.

In an acknowledgement that the role of the GP is ever changing in response to patient and societal demands, the chosen theme for this year’s ICGP’s Winter Meeting is ‘The evolution of general practice’.

New research has shown that the proportion of babies born by caesarean section (CS) has increased fourfold over the past three decades.

While so many lobby groups have been making claims for extra resources from the Health Budget, GPs included, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes we need to first tackle the grossly inefficient management structures that are eating away at the €14 billion pot During my very brief time in the lowest divisions of Irish politics (circa 2004), I had the pleasure of

Later on this autumn, the Medical Council begins its first inspection visits of postgraduate medical training clinical sites, beginning in one of the hospital groups, delegates attending the second Irish Medical Careers Fair in Dublin last week heard.

Telemedicine should be incorporated in the curriculum of medical schools at undergraduate and postgraduate level, attendees at the recent Irish Medical Careers Fair (IMCF) heard.

The Irish Medical Council (IMC) has indicated that it is aware that its Professional Competence Scheme (PCS) does not assess doctors in Ireland for all of the characteristics of professionalism and is keen to review its format, such that it also focuses on performance and expertise in the next year-and-a-half, Irish Medical Times reports.