Editorial
Perhaps the only thing to match the spread of the new coronavirus, or Covid-19, are news articles and social media…
n our last editorial, we focused on how healthcare was the most important issue for the electorate based on an…
As this editorial is being written the country is still shaking from the ramifications of the general election results, which…
Perhaps the defining moment of the Claire Byrne Live health debate on 20 January came at the end of the…
Mary Harney remarkably did not use a computer during her time as Minister for Health. Yet her tenure marked the…
“One of the virtues of the NHS is that it doesn’t worry you about money at the moment when you’re…
In the previous issue of the Medical Independent (MI), we revealed how the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER)…
f the HSE is ever in need of a new slogan, it could do worse than use one of the…
The outpouring of tributes on the death of Gay Byrne was to be expected, given the pivotal role he played…
The subject of our previous editorial was the slow pace of healthcare negotiations, with consultants being the main focus. It…
Healthcare negotiations can often be a slow, laborious, affair. The consultant contract 2008 took over a decade of talks before…
Nearly 64,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2016 alone. Opioid overdoses accounted for more than 42,000 of these…
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