Complaints about doctors have risen by more than 40% in the past four years, figures show.

RTÉ Radio’s Liveline has been severely criticised by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland for the way it covered the termination of a patient advocate’s contract.

A DOCTOR has been found guilty of professional misconduct and poor professional performance by a Medical Council fitness to practise committee over the care he gave to a woman who underwent a gastric banding procedure in Hungary.

GASTRIC band patients who were left in the lurch by a consultant anaesthetist operating from a private clinic are being provided with aftercare services by the HSE.

A CONSULTANT anaesthetist, who has left several gastric band patients in the lurch after he closed his clinic without anynotice, has been suspended by his new employers at Ennis General Hospital.