I read two opposing accounts on the controversy in US healthcare this weekend and ironically enough I agreed with both. One was contained within the ‘Open Door’ magazine, a catholic pamphlet that is generally picked up on the way out of church (although this particular copy caught my eye in Tesco Maynooth), the other was [...]
Most people will be aware there are plans afoot, or have been for some time, to relocate the various childrens hospitals into a central facility, and that a city centre site (the Mater) was chosen by the working group.
Now I had concerns around the site, as being a national facility, somewhere at least on the [...]
There’s been a huge amount of reaction the past couple of days over provisions in this hot off the press budget, particularly the over-70s medical scheme changes, but also class size increases and other draconian style measures contained within.
I don’t generally believe in dealing on the basis of media frenzy, as there is often a [...]
A while ago I became aware that people were having difficulties finding a GP surgery to take them under the recently launched GP Visit Card scheme. I was also aware that some surgeries considered their medical card lists closed and were no longer accepting any new public patients.
The GP Visit Card is sometimes termed a [...]