Tag Archives: emergency care

GPs could have a strong role to play working in hospitals and could assist in solving some of the difficulties faced by the acute sector, a leading GP has suggested.

The HIQA review on pre-hospital emergency care has made 12 recommendations that relate to aspects of service provision in both the National Ambulance Service (NAS) and Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB).

By Dara Gantly.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

The humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) performed close to 20,000 procedures in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008 with an operative death rate of only 0.