A 435 per cent volume increase in the number of patients waiting over 12 months for...

New grades such as physician associate (PA) will be considered in the context of “innovation” under...

The Medical Independent has closely tracked the introduction of physician associates into Irish healthcare since 2015....

Ireland’s rate of organ donation could be increased by 25 per cent — translating to an...

Elevated levels of formaldehyde were detected in Beaumont Hospital’s operating theatre department and the post-mortem room,...

Catherine Reilly delves through national and international guidance on when healthcare workers should wear respirator masks...

There was a “significant backlog” in processing safeguarding concerns received by the safeguarding and protection team...

Doctors from non-EU countries have renewed their call for access to training programmes. A number of...

Much remains to be done to address unsafe NCHD working hours, with the integrity of the...

As long-standing issues around resourcing and recognition deepen during the pandemic, specialists in occupational medicine warn...

Trainees at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, reported that some SHOs were rostered to work...

The risk of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) becoming “more widespread and endemic” throughout the Irish healthcare system...