A doctors organisation still maintains cuts imposed on GPs’ fees to stabilise the State’s finances are far greater than that claimed by the Department of Health.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar will adress the Irish Medical Organisation's AGM in Kilkenny this afternoon.

Some medical card patients, unable to afford prescription charges, are not taking vital medication and suffering strokes as a result, research will show.

Junior Health Minister Alex White today faced "robust" questions from doctors at the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) annual conference over plans for free GP care for children under the age of six.

The Minister for Primary Care Alex White has been met with a wall of silence at the IMO conference in Co Kildare.

The Minister for Health's proposal to provide free GP care for children under six will dominate the annual conference of the IMO in Kildare this weekend.

The Irish Medical Organisation is calling on the HSE to immediately begin work on an action plan to reduce the working hours of junior doctors.

Doctors have rejected a motion to support legislation for abortion where there is a “real and substantial risk’’ to the life of the mother, in line with the X case.

Doctors differed yesterday on alternative cures offered by herbalists and other non-medical practitioners.

The Irish Medical Organisation last night said presidents of the organisation were unaware of how their annual allowance was calculated.

The chief executive of the Irish Medical Organisation has warned that health cuts will hurt the vulnerable the most.

Minister for Health Mary Harney is expected to receive a frosty welcome when she addresses the annual conference of the Irish Medical Organisation in Killarney today.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney has insisted that she is not running scared from nurses angered by her handling of the health service.

The issue of obesity is topping the agenda at the annual conference of the Irish Medical Organisation in Killarney today.

Minister for Health Mary Harney has accused doctors of making inaccurate claims about the ongoing A&E crisis.

The ongoing A&E crisis is among the main issues up for discussion at the annual conference of the Irish Medical Organisation, which gets underway in Killarney today.