With the arrival of summer, it came up in the discussion in one of my classes about the uptick in ER admissions.

Panaji: From fewer than 70 seats a few years ago, Goa Medical College (GMC) now offers 200 MBBS seats to aspiring medicos. Yet, as that number increases with time, young doctors increasingly balk at ...

A doctor who was suspended for a year for being on drugs while seeing patients has been allowed to return to the profession. Nathan Sandles was found acting "drowsy, sleepy and disorientated" while on ...

The research also suggested that, where a patient’s condition was worsening, 69.5 per cent of patients reported preferring to consult a GP than a pharmacist and 42.7 per cent strongly agreed or agreed ...

A policy to provide five bulk-billing general practitioner clinics around the state risks going unfilled due to the state's ...

Demand for GP consultations is projected to increase by 23–30 per cent by 2040, driven primarily by population growth and ...

A Department of Health spokesperson said mental health was a key area of focus for the minister and that he wished to convey ...

This can prove a source of frustration, with Jayne Bond - part of a four-strong team at the increasingly busy practice - ...

There is a current emphasis on transformation in the NHS being driven as close to the patient as possible, namely by focusing on neighbourhoods. General practice represents the largest number of ...

A new analysis of the supply and demand of GPs has warned of capacity constraints in areas of growing population in Dublin ...

The creation of neighbourhood health centres, announced last week in the government’s 10 year health plan,12 must not result in GP premises being “left to wither,” the chair of the BMA’s General ...

GP partners in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action as part of their fight for ...