We are watching a tsunami coming towards us, a respiratory consultant has warned.

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.

GPs say thousands of people have been ringing their practices this morning, meaning many cannot get through.

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.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says the government will do whatever is needed to cope with the impact of coronavirus.

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

I awake to the sound of Alexa turning on Morning Ireland.

Environment Minister Richard Bruton is considering laws to tackle engine idling.

The message is being highlighted on European Antibiotic Awareness Day today.

Any plan to have GPs working alongside consultants in hospital emergency departments could result in an 'extraordinarily efficient service' but it will not work as a stop-gap measure, according to a leading GP in Cork.

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.

Doctors have six months to change how they prescribe anxiety and sleeping medicine to avoid disciplinary action by the Medical Council.

The new appointees are Brendan Lenihan, with expertise in financial planning and management, and Fergus O’Kelly, Clinical Professor in general practice and family medicine.

The Health Minister has granted medicinal cannabis be used to treat 20 patients after their doctors applied for a special licence.

Safe zones for people accessing abortion services at GP offices or hospitals are expected to be agreed by the Government next month.

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."

Dr Dermot Nolan, GP and asthma specialist, and spokesperson for Live Every Breath Campaign

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

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The association representing the bulk of the country’s GPs is holding an extraordinary general meeting tomorrow against a backdrop of no engagement with the Department of Health on how it plans to roll out a doctor-led abortion service.

Women will be able to access abortions here from January, the Taoiseach has said.

"No more isolation. The burden of shame is gone."

Women can have confidence in the national cervical screening programme, the Department of Health’s chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, has said.

A lack of psychological and social therapies for people with mental health difficulties is partly to blame for high prescribing rates for antidepressants. That’s according to doctors addressing the Oireachtas joint health committee on foot of recent media reports on overuse of prescription drugs.

GPs are asking parents to be vigilant for signs and symptoms of meningitis after the death of a young girl in the last 24 hours.

Large swathes of the country are going to be left without any GP if supports are not given to doctors, according to the Irish College of General Practitioners.

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