Ray Walley

GPs warn of surge in cases in Dublin presenting with Covid symptoms

Increase in numbers nationally reflected in numbers visiting doctors’ surgeries

Call for preparations for next winter’s flu season to begin immediately

Former IMO president says measures should include the provision of flu vaccine to children

An Irish solution to the coronavirus problem

Committees are sitting, hospital rooms are ready, but ‘self-isolation’ is central to the plan

Cannabis legalisation: ‘It’s a bit like the anti-vaxx debate’

A group of doctors say we are ‘sleepwalking’ into legalising cannabis. Is it time to wake up?

Medicinal cannabis campaigner devastated by doctors’ comments

Letter in The Irish Times claims decriminalistion campaigns are Trojan horses

Ireland ‘sleepwalking’ into liberal cannabis regime, warn doctors

Campaigners say medicinal cannabis being used as ‘Trojan horse’ towards legalisation

Potential of new rapid sepsis test will take time to fully measure, medics say

Illness can be difficult to detect and publicity claims it could save thousands of lives

Do doctors make better parents, or parents make better doctors?

Shift work as a hospital doctor can help you for the sleep deprivation of early parenthood

Healthcare professionals may be compelled to have flu vaccine

Minister indicates uptake rate so low that ‘it deserves very serious consideration by me’

Leading GP questions HSE assertions that flu levels may peak in coming days

Numbers of patients on hospital trolleys eases back to 473, say nurses

Free GP care for all by 2022 unrealistic, says IMO president

IMO annual conference hears plan to operate on patients within 12 weeks ‘impractical’

Age definition of child sought by doctors at conference

Irish Medical Organisation forum seeks to end age difference between different services

Doctor’s smartphone solution to child sport injuries

Paediatric hospital backs new guide to ‘doing the right thing’ on the sidelines

State is ‘woefully unprepared’ for an emergency, conference told

Outgoing IMO president warns Irish health service could roll ‘from crisis to crisis’

Doctors want mandatory reporting for sports injuries at school

Motion will be debated at IMO’s annual conference in Sligo

Doctors warn of looming health service funding crisis

IMO says health budget this year is insufficient and faces overrun of up to €500m

Will this be the year of telemedicine?

Connecting with your doctor is now easier than ever . . . or is it?

GPs leaving Ireland at rate of one per day, says IMO

Doctors call for increased funding to tackle ‘unprecedent crisis’ in health service

Parents back free under-six scheme but doctors doubtful

Increase in surgery visits has knock-on effects elsewhere, claim some GPs

Mater to spend €320,000 on overflow ‘private capacity’

Money earmarked for outsourcing emergencies when demand exceeds capacity

Use of private-sector health managers ‘could hit salaries’

Union warns move could lead to reduced terms and conditions

Why has Ireland lost so many doctors and nurses?

Sick system: The ailing health service, part 3

Brendan Howlin ‘confident’ Siptu will accept new pay deal

Doctors and teachers unions have already come out against proposed agreement

Doctors divided over plan to provide free GP care for under-sixes

National Association of General Practitioners rejects proposal while the IMO supports it

GP union rejects under six deal at emergency meeting

IMO says GP under six deal represents ‘good first step’

Universal health insurance just another tax, says IMO

Irish Medical Organisation president says doctors favour ‘universal healthcare’

Media excluded from GP meeting on under-6s contract

IMO members discuss deal in Kilkenny, Leo Varadkar to make presentation

Doctors ‘denied presumption of innocence’ at hearings

Irish Medical Organisation conference hears doctors ‘guilty unless proven otherwise’

Free GP care scheme for children under age 6 to come into effect in July

‘Major step’ in improving access, quality and affordability of care, says Varadkar

Analysis: Free GP care plan faces many hurdles

Work needed before Coalition’s plan for free GP care for everyone can be implemented

Varadkar denies plan to require patients to have insurance to access certain GP procedures

Minister rejects warning by Irish Medical Organisation

Ireland facing ‘silent epidemic’ of superbugs, doctors told

Antibiotic use in Irish nursing homes is twice as high as any other country in Europe

Talks on revised GP contracts to start next month

IMO and Government to look at scope, content and fee structure to apply

Medical bodies criticise official doubts over alleged exodus of GPs

IMO says Department of Health data is misleading

Government struggling with medical cards issue as GP services are in disarray

IMO to permit GP contract facilitating free healthcare for under-sixes

Irish Medical Organisation and Department of Health strike agreement on practices

Talks between Government and IMO on free GP care plan to take place today

Coalition seeks to introduce free doctor service to under-sixes from summer

GPs call for review of prescription charge

Family doctors say fee is causing undue hardship to sections of the population

White tells IMO that GP fees unlikely to be cut further

Minister defends free GP care plan, says visit to doctor should not pose financial dilemma

Fears of brain drain as places on GP training scheme unfilled

Irish Medical Organisation plans to highlight its campaign for greater resourcing of primary care

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