Tag Archives: Patient confidence

Irish people seem to attach a lot of importance to being seen by a hospital consultant, an attitude only exceeded by the UK within Europe, according to a newly published EU report.

With anti-doctor sentiment rife in a Britain served up by a hyperbolic diet of Daily Mail headlines, Dr Muiris Houston questions whether it is the UK education system that is to blame for ill-informed patients.

More than a half (54 per cent) of Irish people believe patients could be harmed by outpatient or inpatient hospital care in this country, a pan-European survey shows.