Open letter to Minister for Health Simon Harris, TD Dear Minister, I recently came across an article based on a survey by Dr Julie MacNamara (‘Sailing towards the perfect storm’, Forum, September 2014), which brought the issue of the shortage of GPs to the public’s attention.
Thank God I am retired, but I did enjoy being a GP, keeping up to date and caring with feeling for my patients.
Dear Editor, As a doctor of nearly 20 years’ standing, I have grown wary of the medical profession’s interactions with patients.
By Gary Culliton.
By Gary Culliton.
Gary Culliton The lack of “clear and transparent information” in relation to how Hospital Inpatient Enquiry (HIPE) data — used to calculate private clinical work — is collected was strongly criticised at the IMO’s National Consultants Meeting.
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent English High Court case in which a consultant neurologist challenged a decision of a hospital trust to discipline him in respect of matters relating to private practice and his annual work plan Dr Louis Loizou is employed as a consultant neurologist at the Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.
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