Editorial

Dara Gantly looks at the vexatious issue of ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders in the context of a recent HIQA inspection at Mullross Nursing Home and examines the continued lack of guidance for doctors in this area.

Dara Gantly hopes the latest ambitious talk on tobacco control turns out to be more than mere rhetoric.

Dara Gantly on the most pressing ‘slippery slope’ facing our health service.

Dara Gantly on the continued need to train additional GPs and the potential stumbling blocks that could prevent this from happening in sufficient numbers.

Dara Gantly on the very long road ahead if the Irish public is to learn to love — or not, as the case may be — the Irish health service, while drawing a comparative analysis with our UK counterparts.

Dara Gantly concludes his examination of a new expert report on the health policy options facing an Irish Government whose hands are economically tied by the troika.

Dara Gantly examines a new expert report on the health policy options facing a Government that is already an ‘outlier’ in Europe, strapped for cash and constrained by the EU-IMF-ECB troika.

Dara Gantly on what we should make of the DoH Secretary General’s remarks that Ireland may now have a sufficient number of hospital consultants in its public system

Dara Gantly ponders what the Government might choose to do next to address the ‘grey area’ of abortion legislation.

Dara Gantly examines the ‘moderate’ planning risk that the new St James’s Children’s Hospital could suffer the same fate as the Mater.