YOUNG doctors are reluctant to take up GP posts in some rural areas, leading to a shortage of medical manpower for patients, the Irish Medical Organisation’s conference was told at the weekend.

NOT one cent of the over €8 million paid out to GPs for the care of elderly medical card patients who were dead has been recovered despite Government promises to recoup the full amount.

THE search is on for weapons of mass reduction, a nutritionist told the Marketplace Ireland event at Croke Park in Dublin yesterday as he urged Irish food and drink companies to pay more attention to nutrition in their products.

GENERAL Practitioners are meeting tonight to consider balloting for industrial action in support of their striking public health colleagues.