Tánaiste unveils bill to regulate doctors

HUGE changes in the way the medical profession will be policed in the future were unveiled yesterday by the Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney.

However, a growing number of doctors are already expressing their dissatisfaction with the changes, provided for in the Medical Practitioners Bill.

Up to 1,000 doctors have joined a group called the Medical Council Membership Support Committee, which has described the moves as “lunacy” on the grounds that “lay people can’t consider the issues without at least a very good grounding in anatomy”.