Medical Council seeks changes to MPA

By Dara Gantly. The Medical Practitioners Act (MPA) should be amended to allow retired doctors or those not actively practising medicine to remain on the medical register, the immediate past President of the Medical Council has suggested. Prof Kieran Murphy said it seemed “logical” that such a provision should be made for doctors wanting to remain on the Register, but who did not wish to practise. However, the current legislation did not allow the Council to exercise that option, he said. “The Register is effectively a licence to practise, so we have to apply the same test to everybody,” explained…