Kealan Flynn reports that the latest 1,100-page tome from the Comptroller & Auditor General offers little assurance that the HSE’s vast property estate and budget is always well managed This year’s trilogy from public spending watchdog, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), provides a salutary reminder of just how far the country’s fortunes have fallen.
North Dublin GP Dr Marcus de Brun believes the real agenda behind the recent Competition Authority report into the GMS is to pave the way for ministerial cuts in GP fees A personal coinage of Simon Dedalus in Ulysses, the phase ‘shite and onions’ was once used by Gerry Adams with unconcealed cynicism to the expected outcome of the RUC’s
The science of epigenetics may hold the key to our understanding of mental illness and behavioural disorders, Dr Bill Walsh tells Aoife Connors
Pioneering US medic Dr Lynn Holden tells Aoife Connors about her novel project to open up entry to medicine to the socially disadvantaged
Professional competence (PC) will impose a significant administrative cost on the ICGP, College Chairman Dr John Delap has told Irish Medical Times.
The IMO believes the CA is incorrect regarding its negotiating powers, writes Aoife Connors
Dr Paul Heslin writes an open letter to Minister John Gormley suggesting a very simple solution that could save money, the precious time of emergency care workers and many lives
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Court of Appeal case in the UK, in which the Court allowed an appeal by a former senior health executive against a decision of the High Court that her severance package was unreasonably generous
With changes emerging as to how Revenue focuses on locums, tax expert Geraldine Corcoran looks at the continued uncertainty over the issue facing the medical profession
Continuing our series on the Irish Healthcare Awards, Valerie Ryan looks back at how, for the first time in Ireland, an entire hospital campus was declared smoke-free
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