Irish Medical Organisation

Healthcare authorities have insisted that the first phase of the new national children’s hospital will open on schedule this summer despite there bein(...)

Family doctors will not accept having to provide additional or new services to medical card patients in return for the restoration of pay cuts, the Ir(...)

The nurses are going on strike and one of their grievances is poor staffing levels. But there’s a serious question hovering out there: are there too m(...)

Specialists in public health medicine are to commence industrial action in mid-January, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has said. The doctors ar(...)

Health Service Executive bosses were shy about identifying targets at the launch of this year’s winter plan for the health service, but one hospital m(...)

The Health Service Executive has said that it “absolutely expects” that the number of people who will spend time on trolleys in hospitals this winter (...)

Everyone has a view on GPs. Depending on who you talk to, they are overworked, under-resourced and at risk of burn-out, or they’re overpaid, under-str(...)

The Irish Medical Organisation has warned it may take industrial action in the New Year over the two-tier pay system for hospital consultants. The un(...)

Longer operating hours for injury units and X-ray departments, the greater use of private sector beds and diagnostic facilities, and the setting up of(...)

One general practice received more than €1.1 million in gross fees and other payments from the State last year, official figures reveal. Nearly 30 do(...)