Government re-instates Long Covid scheme for healthcare workers imt.ie/news/governmen…

200 babies each year would benefit from expanded newborn screening imt.ie/news/200-babie…

Almost three-in-four people in Ireland live within 300 metres of a liquor licence, with the growth of off-licences offsetting a fall in the number of pubs, a new HealthResearchBoard report has found AlcoholActionIreland imt.ie/news/three-qua…

Kev O'Boyle Jo D MedLIS HealthlinkIrl ... I'm just wondering, is MedLIS still incompatible with national GP software?

I am just asking on behalf of the section of the health service that makes 80-90% of the (in-patient, out-patient, and community) clinical decisions daily.

Will a Chief Pharmaceutical Officer be next? Leadership is also needed in the delivery of existing and new #pharmacy services. Irish Pharmacy Union PSI

Government approves further expansion of role of pharmacists  imt.ie/news/governmen…

Dr Maria Kehoe, Audit Development Manager and Project Lead for the Potential Donor Audit Development Study at NOCA was kindly invited by Irish Kidney Association to the launch of Organ Donation Awareness Week, taking place from the 20th-27th April.

Dr Catherine Motherway, Clinical Lead…

Tune in today for our 2nd lunchtime webinar as part of National Arthritis Week where we will be joined with Helen French, who will explore the myth that physical activity is bad for arthritis at 12.30 Register here: ow.ly/FSi550ReRql

Cancer outcomes ‘at risk of going backwards’, clinicians warn imt.ie/news/cancer-ou…

Patients are staying up to two days longer in acute hospitals according to a report which compared 2022 admissions with data from 2016 imt.ie/news/patients-…

#Anaemia in #CKD . Read about anaemia in chronic kidney disease in my article published in #MIMS Spring Quarterly 2024. Available at: edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/p…

Irish Medical Lives podcast

Prof Garry Courtney, Gastroenterologist and Clinical Director at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, and National Clinical Lead in the Acute Medicine Programme

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⁦⁦Irish Medical Times 🇺🇦⁩ imt.ie/podcasts/profe…

#RheumatoidArthritis . Read about the current #treatment options for Rheumatoid Arthritis, in my article published in #MIMS Spring quarterly. Available at: edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/p…

Is it the Ministers or the Civil Service ?

Over decades, is poor performance in parts of 🇮🇪 Health System due more because of underperforming Ministers or HSE/DOH Officials ?

Just wondering ?

Irish Medical Times 🇺🇦 Irish Medical News 🇺🇦 Irish Doctors for the Environment Suzanne Crowe (she/her) Rita Doyle William Behan

Excellent article by the wonderful Chris Luke about compassionate care in the #EmergencyDepartment ARC: Ageing Research Centre University of Limerick Katie Robinson Rose Galvin

Primary Care Funding for
Cancer Survivorship is also required 🤔

Currently provided on an ad hoc manner at the general practice level…as was CDM until recently…needs to be better ?

Irish Medical Times 🇺🇦 Mike O'Callaghan Suzanne Crowe (she/her) Irish Cancer Society

Deeply concerning, especially given stated aim of retail pharmacy to increase patient advisory roles. Vitamin D, that's it. The rest of the vitamin & mineral market sales - with few exceptions, is sham remedy selling. Unfair on patients who trust advice of professionals.

Our CEO Shane O’Brien joined Sinead O’Kane, who was diagnosed with PD at the age of 39, on The Hard Shoulder yesterday for World Parkinson's Day

They discussed PD & the lack of funding for Parkinson’s Ireland.

You can listen back to the discussion here: newstalk.com/podcasts/highl…

Clinical trials regulatory environment ‘hostile’ and ‘oppressive’ – cancer specialist imt.ie/news/clinical-…

Patients waiting up to 20 months for Parkinson’s diagnosis imt.ie/news/patients-… Parkinson's Ireland UCC Ireland #WorldParkinsonsDay