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

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

President of the council, Dr Rita Doyle, was responding to growing concerns about Covid-19 in Ireland.

A doctor has been struck off the medical register by the High Court after he was found guilty of misconduct by repeatedly ignoring requirements to keep up to date with his professional competency.

The accuracy of waiting list figures published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has been called into question by a consultant who said the official figures were a “tenfold under-estimation” of the actual situation vis-a-vis his own specialty.

The Medical Council has issued guidelines to doctors for the prescribing of benzodiazepine medications. The document equates the use of benzodiazepines with opiates and warns doctors that any inappropriate prescribing will be negatively viewed by the council.

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

Dr Tom O’Dowd, former professor of general practice at Trinity College said that the warning will help GPs to explain the dangers to patients demanding repeat prescriptions.

Doctors have welcomed new Medical Council ethical guidelines which outline the extent of conscientious objection to abortion.

Three doctors over the age of 90, and 45 doctors over the age of 81 are legally entitled to practise medicine in the Republic of Ireland, despite their advanced years.

Out-of-hours GP service, SouthDoc, may be forced to cut the number of its treatment centres because of funding pressures and doctor shortages.

The president of the High Court has suggested the Medical Council review how it ensures doctors registered here can adequately communicate with patients and colleagues in English.

An accident and emergency hospital doctor who called a patient a “motherfucker” and struck him on the face and head has been suspended for three months, with conditions to be attached to his registration following the suspension.

One in three trainee doctor specialists has been involved in an adverse patient event, it has emerged.

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 nurse midwife has had her registration cancelled by the High Court over concerns about her ability to practice safely due to a history of psychosis.

A doctor has been suspended from the medical register here for six months for professional misconduct following a finding he told a female patient he wanted to kiss her.

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.

The HSE has confirmed seven patients whose scans were missed or misread and whose cancer diagnoses were delayed at University Hospital Kerry have now died.

The president of the High Court has suspended a doctor from the medical register, saying he was registered after making dishonest representations and when his competence was "entirely substandard".

Almost two-thirds of doctors entered on the medical register for the first time last year had qualified outside of Ireland, it has emerged.

More than a third (37%) left to move to Britain to practise medicine, while almost one in five (19%) went to Australia and more than a quarter (27%) to another jurisdiction, according to those who gave a reason.

A doctor received sums totalling about €12,650 from a seriously ill patient aged in his seventies in circumstances suggesting a breach of the Medical Council's ethical guidelines, the president of the High Court has said.

A number of former patients of a doctor who admitted working under the influence of opioids are to be informed shortly about a decision to allow him to continue to practice under a number of restrictions, the High Court heard.

A psychiatrist who engaged in a sexual relationship with a female patient has been struck off the medical register by the president of the High Court.

A consultant surgeon who claimed he was subjected to "a torrent of bullying, victimisation, intimidation and harassment" by the HSE has received undisclosed High Court damages and an unreserved apology.

Health correspondent Catherine Shanahan answers all the pressing questions concerning the abortion legislation

Hospital interns have been asked to do duties they are not qualified for, according to new Medical Council reports.

Health Minister Simon Harris has welcomed a statement from the new President of the Medical Council about the positive impact of cancer screening programmes.

All publicly funded hospitals will be expected to provide legal health services, including women’s health services, says Health Minister Simon Harris.

Poor working conditions, training, and career opportunities are still driving young doctors from Ireland, it has emerged.

More than 40 years on, Dr Mary Randles is hearing the same arguments being put forward ahead of the Friday’s referendum to repeal the Eighth as she did when she was pushing to provide women with contraception.

The Medical Council says the rate of complaints it receives about hospital consultants who are not on the specialist register is “slightly more” than those who are.

All former health ministers stretching back over the last 15 years could be hauled before a cross-party Oireachtas committee to answer questions on the cervical cancer tests scandal.

“Open Disclosure is an open, consistent approach to communicating with patients when things go wrong in healthcare."

Health bosses have been accused of “abusing” children with mental health issues by neglecting their needs.