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    ICGP 2012 | 17 May 2012

    The Medical Council should look at ways to facilitate retired GPs to remain on the medical register as a special group, the outgoing ICGP president has suggested.

  • Solution to be sought to talks impasse

    ICGP 2012 | 17 May 2012

    The Department of Health is to meet with representatives from the Department of Jobs, Innovation and Trade, and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform together with the Competition Authority and the IMO, in an effort to discuss ways of overcoming the impasse surrounding competition law so that talks can finally commence on a new GP contract.

  • Exit International Ireland reports growing interest in assisted suicide

    Exclusive | 17 May 2012

    Three to four Irish people a week contact Exit International, a group campaigning for the legalisation of assisted suicide, according to the group’s Irish spokesperson Tom Curran.

  • Investigation into Coombe death

    Exclusive | 17 May 2012

    An investigation is being carried out into the circumstances of the maternal death of a patient at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, the Medical Independent (MI) has learned.

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