We must act as Irish medical heritage is at risk.

In the wake of a National Archives of Ireland survey Dr Ciara Breathnach and Dr Laurence M. Geary call on Minister Simon Harris to legislate for our now vulnerable medical heritage.

We must act as Irish medical heritage is at risk.

ON 15 November 2016 John McDonough, Director of the National Archives of Ireland, launched the recently completed Survey of Hospital Records in Ireland at the Royal College of Physicians.

The survey, which was funded by the Wellcome Trust, provides details of the extant public hospital archive for each county from the eighteenth century up to the foundation of the Regional Health Boards in 1970.

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