It is thought thousands of people are not registered with any GP with up to 70% of practices too busy to accept new patients in recent years.

The Department of Health has announced that a person in the east of the country has passed away.

The HSE is asking people to keep 999 and 112 for emergencies only and says out-of-hours doctors cannot order tests.

Doctors are no longer accepting walk-in appointments in a bid to protect staff and patients from coronavirus.

Dentists fear young children will be left “with the worst of both worlds” under the Government's plan to allow free dental care for under-sixes.

There have been 6,000 calls to the HSE’s crisis pregnancy helpline since abortion was legalised in Ireland.

Some GPs providing abortions services are being "intimidated" outside their practice "every single day."

By 2050, death from superbugs will outstrip the number of people dying from a cancer, a Cork GP has warned.

By 2050, death from superbugs will outstrip the number of people dying from a cancer, a Cork GP has warned.

Almost half of Irish GPs believe they are ineffective in helping problem drinkers.

Victims of rape and sexual assault can go to any of the country’s six sexual assault treatment units without reporting the incident to the gardaí, a major GP conference has heard.

Almost 80% of GPs have experienced a patient suicide, and most are adversely affected, it has emerged.

An attempt to involve family doctors in reducing long waiting times for women with a distressing gynae- cological problem has failed after GPs said that they were not prepared to take on additional unpaid work.

The crisis in mental health has become a crisis in general practice, says the Irish College of General Practitioners.

The mother of Milly Tuomey set up a suicide support group, Healing Untold Grief Group (HUGG), to help others and prevent future loss of life in the wake of her 11-year-old daughter’s death.

Primary care teams developed by the HSE throughout the country have been deemed “a failed initiative” by the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP).

Cheap long-term contraception will cut crisis pregnancy numbers

The national rollout of a €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies has been put on hold until a digital link is in place that will allow electronic sharing of data between maternity hospitals and GPs.

A €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies and cut down on paperwork has created more work for staff and more room for error because of a failure to link it up with GP IT systems.

A €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies and cut down on paperwork has created more work for staff and more room for error because of a failure to link it up with GP IT systems.

A €35m ‘landmark’ IT system to record maternal and newborn care has struggled to live up to its billing, writes Catherine Shanahan Health Correspondent    

Devising a cross-party health strategy was a very good idea. It did away with the need for opposition politicians to pick apart a vision for the simple selfish reason that it wasn’t their own, writes Catherine Shanahan.

The majority of GPs support the legalisation of cannabis for therapeutic use, but not the Government’s policy on decriminalisation.

A trebling of the number of cases of women with gonorrhoea within a month was of such concern that the HSE took the step of writing to doctors to highlight best practice in managing suspected and confirmed infections.

GPs are sending non-urgent patients to hospital emergency departments in the hope they will get diagnostic tests for which they would otherwise have to wait up to two years.

There have been calls for more doctors in disadvantaged areas, because women in poorer communities are 33% more likely to die from breast cancer than wealthier women.

Only one in three trainee GPs "definitely" plan to stay in Ireland when they complete their specialist training, it has emerged.

An MEP has accused the HSE of dragging its feet on the implementation of an EU directive that allows patients claim back money for medical treatment abroad.

Ahead of today’s deadline for family doctors to sign up to free care for under-sixes, Health Minister Leo Varadkar and his junior minister Kathleen Lynch yesterday wrote to GPs to clarify issues around the scheme and tell those who have not signed the contract that it is not too late to do so.

Plans to reform the medical card system have descended into farce just 24 hours after being unveiled after it was claimed that GPs have been able to reinstate the help since 2012, but never used the power.

A formal complaints mechanism that lets doctors resolve issues raised by patients — before any possible litigation — could ease pressure on medics, according to a GP.

MODAFINIL is just the latest ‘smart drug’ or ‘nootropic’ to be used illicitly to enhance intellectual performance.

Doctors have called for a multi-disciplinary approach to combating alcohol-related problems and said legislation alone is not enough.

Family doctors from across the West met in Galway last night as part of the continuing campaign to oppose the proposed new GP contract.