A new report from the Medical Council published today has outlined dangerous hours and high-stress environment that the country's youngest doctors endure.

A pay discrepancy among doctors is up for discussion at today's Irish Medical Organisation AGM.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) says it is a "national disgrace" that 7,000 operations were cancelled this year because of hospital overcrowding.

The HSE's €30m winter plan will only provide “a temporary relief” for some patients, the Irish Medical Organisation claims.

The Irish Medical Organisation says annual leave is not the reason why Irish hospitals are overcrowded.

The number of people on trolleys is expected to hit 1,000 around the country as winter sets in.

The Irish Medical Organisation has called for alcohol screening for pregnant women.

The Minister for Health Simon Harris has promised significant resources are available for new GP contracts.

The Irish Medical Organisation is calling on the Government to tackle the shortage of GPs.

The National Children’s Hospital has been hit by a new row over rosters for consultants.

Latest: The Emergency Department Taskforce will meet on Monday to discuss hospital overcrowding.

A doctors’ group has called for the health budget to be overhauled to avoid a further deterioration of public health services.

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Nurses have expressed serious patient safety concerns ahead of next week’s move to the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick.

Doctors, nurses, and midwives have accused the Government of taking an “ostrich approach” to the staffing crisis in hospitals, community and mental health services.

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Nurses have said there has been a 100% increase in overcrowding in our hospitals since 2008.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) is to sue the HSE in a dispute over the non-payment of a living-out allowance to approximately 3,000 junior hospital doctors.

Ireland is facing a "tsunami of healthcare problems" as the population ages, a GP has warned.

The Irish Medical Organisation is warning new measures to tackle overcrowding in Emergency departments are "unworkable".

Doctors union has said there can be no extension of free GP care to under 12s until the new GP contract is completed

Hospital consultants have hit out at the Minister for Health for suggesting more of them should be working at weekends.

SIPTU's executive is meeting today to discuss the Lansdowne Road agreement on public sector pay.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has told the Irish Medical Organisation AGM that history will remember the doctors who sign up for the free GP care scheme for under-6s.

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

Doctors agreed a deal allowing free GP care for under-6s after the Government increased its payment by €30m to €67m — an 81% increase, it emerged yesterday.

The Irish Medical Organisation has reached agreement with the Government to provide free GP care for under-6s.

A row between the Irish Medical Organisation and the Competition Authority over whether the union could negotiate collective agreements has ended in the IMO giving an undertaking not to organise or recommend a collective withdrawal of services or boycott by members.

The Cabinet-signalled free GP care for children under six will be pushed through by July, despite the medical profession insisting the initiative is unworkable.

The Irish Medical Organisation had to pay almost €120,000 to Revenue following an audit, it has confirmed.

Doctors have threatened to seek a High Court injunction to stop the Department of Health from changing GP contracts without talks.

The Irish Medical Organisation has warned that the health service will collapse “from the inside” and patients will suffer because of a shortage of consultants.