Tag Archives: emigration

Dara Gantly looks at some of the solutions to our manpower crisis that emerged from discussions at the Irish Medical Careers Fair last week.

Western Australia Health has spent AUD$5 billion (€3.

Dear Editor, I have emigrated twice.

The pattern of recently graduated GPs emigrating is posing “significant challenges”, the HSE has accepted.

The Minister for Health has issued a call to Irish healthcare staff currently working abroad to return to Ireland this year.

Lloyd Mudiwa reports on fresh research originating from Australia claiming that emigration by Irish and UK doctors to Australasia may be backfiring on all health systems concerned.

Dr Ruairi Hanley examines the urgent need to address consultant pay in order to address the current NCHD exodus, and the merits of a proposed pharmacy-based minor ailments scheme that would free up GPs and hospitals to focus on the patients who really need them.

The future of general practice in Ireland appears bleak and it looks reasonable that emigrating is the better prospect for newly qualified GPs, according to one GP Registrar on the Dublin Mid-Leinster GP Training Scheme.

The successive rounds of cuts in GP fees under the FEMPI Act has forced many GPs to consider what a few years previously would have been unimaginable: forced economic emigration.

Dr William Ralph returned recently from Australia to resign from his Irish practice, having tasted a very different way of life and professional practice Down Under.