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Editorial
Priscilla Lynch
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16 Oct 2017
Simon Harris’s honeymoon as Minister for Health would appear to be well and truly over.
From previous issues
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Editorial
Priscilla Lynch
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05 Oct 2017
The last few weeks have seen the publication of some sobering statistics on Ireland’s worsening medical manpower crisis.
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Editorial
Priscilla Lynch
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25 Sep 2017
As the HSE warns of a potential €300 million budget shortfall this year, the medicines bill seems to be under particular pressure.
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Editorial
Priscilla Lynch
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14 Sep 2017
Silly season is over, according to the slew of press releases landing daily into my email account.
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Editorial
Priscilla Lynch
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04 Sep 2017
Good communication skills are key to success in life and work. GPs know this more than most. Letter-writing might be a dying art form but not among our general practitioners, who have to spend far too much of their time reading, writing and answering letters.
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Editorial
Priscilla Lynch
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24 Aug 2017
They haven’t gone away, you know — those tiresome anti-vaxxer scaremongerers. They are still hard at it online, spreading fear and uncertainty.
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Editorial
Catherine Reilly
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10 Aug 2017
It is a population where trust is generally hard-won and easily lost.
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Editorial
Catherine Reilly
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20 Jul 2017
Reporter Niamh Cahill’s recent story in the Medical Independent (MI) — ‘HSE ‘disappointed’ at ICGP ‘failure’ to fill GP training places’ — provoked huge reaction online over the past fortnight among GPs and the wider medical and healthcare professions (see social media comments on this page).
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Editorial
Catherine Reilly
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06 Jul 2017
In a fairly blunt but no less accurate assessment of health service governance, Dr Michael Harty TD told the Primary Care Partnership Conference in Dublin earlier this year there was “a greyness” as to where responsibility rested.
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Editorial
Catherine Reilly
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22 Jun 2017
For anyone cradling a delicate hope that transformative change in health service delivery is drawing nearer — even just through the twin forces of rising demographics and chronic illnesses — the election of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach seems to offer a reason to believe.
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Editorial
Catherine Reilly
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08 Jun 2017
They came, they saw… and, well, they haven’t conquered.
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Editorial
Catherine Reilly
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29 May 2017
Medicine graduand Neasa Conneally’s column on access to medical school, published in our previous edition, really struck a chord within the medical profession and among those seeking to pursue a career in medicine.