The Irish healthcare sector is booming and career opportunities are at a peak, according to a top healthcare recruitment specialist.

The President of the High Court has welcomed a decision by the Medical Council to put in place a system to check the disciplinary records of doctors seeking to be allowed to work in Ireland.

A total of 59 patients were identified as requiring further clinical follow-up and or investigation as part of the recall caused by the missed diagnosis scandal at Kerry Hospital, the Dáil has heard.

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.

What a double whammy I came across as both outstanding columnists, Daniel McConnell and Michael Clifford, (Irish Examiner, 6 January), yet again put forward the Oireachtas committee spin on the right-to-life, Eighth Amendment, telling us that it is flawed, a failure and the public need to be “educated” into changing their views.

There are over 700 beds available if the HSE wants to discharge elderly patients from acute hospitals into nursing home beds.

The president of the High Court has expressed concern at how a doctor with “such sub-standard medical knowledge” — including mistaking an ankle for an elbow in an X-ray — could have been employed in three different hospitals.

Health Minister Simon Harris is set to make a fresh bid to convince GPs to move to isolated rural areas in return for state-paid salaried posts.

A doctor found guilty of professional misconduct has said his treatment during a public inquiry “will be fully paid for at an extremely bloody price for the people involved worldwide,” the High Court heard.

A doctor who allegedly prescribed antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and sleeping tablets to people who were not his patients was yesterday the subject of a disciplinary inquiry.

The Government’s refusal to intervene in the case of an Irish-owned university in the Middle East which has been at the centre of human rights abuses is to be aired before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today.

The Irish Medical Council’s controversial decision to give accreditation to an Irish-owned university in the Middle East at the centre of human rights concerns caused significant division within the council, documents obtained under Freedom of Information show.

Male doctors are twice as likely as female doctors to have a complaint made against them, a study by the Irish Medical Council has found.

One third of trainee doctors have experienced bullying — more than twice that experienced by their British counterparts.

Three in ten doctors reported being bullied or undermined while they were in training, according to a new survey from the Irish Medical Council.

Al-Zayyat guilty of professional misconduct, says medical council

A number of healthcare staff involved in the care of Savita Halappanavar have been "disciplined".

There has been a 23% increase in the number of young doctors leaving Ireland.

Ombudsman Peter Tyndall will visit public hospitals as part of an investigation into how complaints are handled.

An Irish former doctor has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two young girls.

As an Irish surgeon I am ashamed to read yet another carefully wordeddenial by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) of “ongoing” abuses in Bahrain.

I write in response to your article entitled “20 women’s claims linked to one doctor” (Dec 5).