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The Department of Health’s Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025 has been published today. According to the Department, it will involve a comprehensive cross-government approach, with a total of 14 Government departments responsible for implementing actions for the next five years. Some of the targets for the next three years, which Healthy Ireland aims to…

The IMO is in talks with the HSE on GPs continuing to administer Covid-19 vaccinations after vulnerable patient groups have been vaccinated, the Organisation has told its GP members. In an email to GPs with updates on the vaccination programme on Friday 7 May, the IMO revealed that GPs who wish to continue with an…

The RCPI has announced that 2,700 doctors, from 38 countries, have taken its written membership examinations for postgraduate medical qualifications during the past year using advanced remote examination invigilation technology developed by TestReach. The RCPI expects the number of doctors sitting examinations using TestReach’s technology to increase during 2021. TestReach, an Irish company, has doubled…

Public health specialists in the IMO have voted to approve the terms of an agreement reached with the Department of Health to resolve the long-running dispute with the Government.  In April, the IMO announced that it had reached agreement with the Department of Health and the HSE on the issue and was putting the matter to a ballot of…

Frontline nurses and midwives experiencing long-term Covid symptoms are not getting the medical or employment supports they need, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Annual Delegate Conference has warned. The union’s conference will hear from four nurses tomorrow who will outline ongoing severe symptoms from a Covid infection months later, including extreme exhaustion, brain…

The Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Frank Feighan, has welcomed the commencement of the Covid-19 vaccination programme for medically vulnerable people living in homeless services in Dublin city. Today the Minister attended the temporary vaccination clinic set up by the HSE in Dublin city centre. The clinic will…