Editorial
There is no part of the health service that has not been affected, either directly or indirectly, by Covid-19. In…
In January alone, 369 nursing home residents died as a result of Covid-19. This brought the overall number of Covid-19-related…
It is hard to be positive. January is never the easiest month at the best of times. And these are…
At the end of last year, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) issued the results of a survey on the subject…
As a dark year draws to a close, there is at least some solace that the future promises to be…
The pressure Covid-19 is placing on general practice is the subject of two features in this issue of the Medical…
The IHCA AGM and annual conference 2020 was full of familiar themes: Restoring pay parity for ‘new-entrant’ consultants; the health…
The unified front the country presented in the initial surge of Covid-19 appears now to be well and truly over…
When the HSE’s Winter Plan 2019/20 was published, our editorial at the time asked if the name was appropriate anymore.…
Just as ‘spin’ was synonymous with the Tony Blair-led New Labour administration of the late 1990s/early 2000s, ‘optics’ became associated…
PAUL MULHOLLAND As winter approaches, the need to develop strategies to combat Covid-19 takes on fresh urgency. The reopening of…
At the time of writing, there is a lot of talk about the second Covid-19 wave. At the end of…