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Doctors face Croke Park à la carte
[Letter to Irish Times >] Sir, – I read with interest your report that the Department of Health believes Irish General Practitioners are not covered by the Croke Park agreement (HEALTHplus, December...
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Ruairi Hanley on small hospitals
[Letter to the Irish Times >] Sir, – In January the Minister for Health promised that an official Government “review of small hospitals” would be published imminently. Three months have passed, and...
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Ruairi Hanley on GPs and primary care teams
[Letter to Times >] Sir, – I read with dismay the recent HEALTHplus article “GPs could be forced to work in primary care teams” (June 5th). For several years now, the HSE has been hell-bent on...
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Ruairi Hanley on detention of medics in Bahrain
Regrettably, as Prof Damien McCormack also points out, a number of Irish medical institutions have disgraced themselves in their reaction to these events. Truly, it beggars belief that representatives...
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6,000 march to halt Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan cuts
Dr Ruairi Hanley, a GP and spokesman for the campaign group, claimed the threat to the Co Meath hospital had never been greater from “morons within the HSE” who were “plotting every day how to nail...
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Doctors cry foul over medical conduct hearings
The Medical Practitioners’ Act 2007 introduced changes to how the Medical Council regulates the medical profession. Among the most important was the introduction of fitness to practise inquiries in...
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Ruairi Hanley on Health plans for 2014
Worse still, in a move worthy of a banana republic, the Government continues to squander millions of euro on unnecessary, unwanted and unviable “primary care centres” across the land. These political...
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Ruairi Hanley on new contract would ‘gag’ GPs
Sir, – The HSE has recently published a draft contract for doctors in order to facilitate “free” GP care for children under-six. To my disbelief this document requires medical practitioners to state...
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