Special report news

Next year will see PharmaChem Ireland and IPHA host a major BioPharma Ireland event to bring global research and technology leaders to these shores.

Niamh Mullen reports on some of the Irish responses to the recent report by the World Health Organization, which classified processed meats as carcinogenic.

Geraldine Corcoran, Tax Partner with HLB Ryan & Co, analyses Budget 2016 and what it means for medical professionals, the general public, employers and the self-employed, and what more the Government should be doing.

IMO GP Chair Dr Padraig McGarry has told GPs that the under-sixes contract will bring €75m of new money into general practice and help stem the undermining of the profession and the exodus of young graduates, reports Gary Culliton.

With her GP out-of-hours service forced to scale back services in line with its resources, NEDOC Operations Manager Arlene Fitzsimons warns Lloyd Mudiwa that unsustainable funding cuts mean other co-operatives may also be compelled to do likewise.

There is a great opportunity for Vhi Healthcare to use its scale and medical expertise to enable new approaches to managing healthcare, Gary Culliton reports.

Insurers should cover more primary — rather than costly hospital-based — care, it has been argued.

Following on from last week’s special report on complaints procedures, Dara Gantly looks at how the support services for Irish doctors are evolving along international lines to address the many challenges facing the profession.

HSE DG Tony O’Brien has described the Nursing Home Support Scheme as the ‘Achilles heel’ of the hospital system, with lengthy waiting lists and insufficient resources, reports Gary Culliton.

In the first of a two-part report, IMT examines the findings of a UK study on the high level of stress experienced by those involved in FTP hearings — pressure which led to 28 suicides.