I am urging everyone to please stop sharing unverified info on What's app groups. These messages are scaring and confusing people and causing real damage. Please get your info from official, trusted sources. Follow HSE Ireland HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) World Health Organization (WHO) @merrionstreet DFATravelWise

Well done RTÉ News - highlighting the tireless work of the medical scientists in the NVRL UCD #FightCOVID19

GPs support the restrictions that Leo Varadkar Chief Medical Officer Simon Harris TD announced tonight. We all need to restrict our lives to save the lives of others. #Stayathome #UseReliableSources Please RT.

I am looking for pharmacies, hotels and shops to sponsor toiletries for the staff of ICUs around the country. Our staff are working flat out and the chance to shower and freshen up before heading home would be hugely appreciated by all Committee of Anaesthesiology Trainees Ireland @COAIrl IACCN HSE Ireland

Contact tracing app is now live in the iPhone App Store (but not Google Play Store — classic). *Will* share your phone number with HSE if you follow its recommended signups

3100 Public Posts. 1 in 5 unfilled. Nearly 1m on waiting lists. Ireland has Lowest number of specialists per head in EU. Not a single specialty has the required number actually working in the system.  Need to INCREASE Consultant numbers by 42% in 7 years. Contact talks crucial.

Absolutely true - need to aim for clean slate for each consult, regardless of caseload - balancing need to create sense of freedom/openness/time with efficient consulting = important part of the art of clinical medicine

Reminder to those in Ireland that you have free access to BMJ Best Practice for information on diagnosis & management of thousands of conditions & comorbidities. Register here bestpractice.bmj.com/registration (Did I say it is FREE if you are in Ireland?😀) Irish College of GPs Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

PRESS RELEASE : ICGP calls for a Working Group on Future General Practice to plan for serious GP workforce pressures, in pre-Budget submission. icgpnews.ie/press-release-…

An interesting exercise in fostering understanding between primary and secondary care

On call at #CUMH today. This is the worse wave of COVID19 so far for maternity services. If you are pregnant, please get vaccinated - it could be lifesaving for you and your baby. Great resources @RCPI_ObsGyn Jennifer Donnelly Cliona Murphy🇺🇦

Over 1.3 million patients on waiting lists, GP surgeries unable to cope with demand, all staff under intolerable pressure. Government must face up to solutions - we need more doctors, more healthcare staff, more beds and funding that matches demand.

Medical Council on medical workforce : We produce more med graduates than others in the OECD. We rely on international doctors for our hospitals. Fewer specialists than most countries. Can’t go on. @DonnellyStephen Simon Harris TD Leo Varadkar medicalcouncil.ie/news-and-publi…

PRESS RELEASE Our response to #Budget2023 #Budget23 Expansion of free GP Visit Cards will lead to longer waiting times for patients. Only one in five GP practices can take new GMS patients, only one in 4 can take new private patients. Read here bit.ly/3CaRmbl

A GP Visit Card isn’t much use if you can’t find a GP My latest cartoon for Medical Independent #budget23 #cartoon #GP #medicalillustration

Govt plan to hand out over half a million GP visit cards this year will create massive access issues for patients. Timely article by Tony O’Brien🇺🇦

A look at the use of joint injections by Irish GPs in BJGP Open Journal with Walter Cullen john broughan UCD Medicine . Thank you to the GPs who took part via GPBuddy GPForum Ireland East/UCD GP Research Network @AUDGPI doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.…

I’m delighted to publish an interesting case in NEJM this week: Thrombus in Transit across a Patent Foramen Ovale | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Croí Heart & Stroke British & Irish Association of Stroke Physicians

Ireland is a few years behind the UK in the introduction of the Physician Associate role, and we should use that as an opportunity to learn from the many mistakes that health institutions in the UK have made in that time. Cartoon for Medical Independent