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Planning in Galway has broken my heart. Trying to get an extra 10 parking spots to facilitate patients of the clinic and this has been blocked and obstructed at an incomprehensible level. I've had great help from local councillors but no understanding from the council.

I can't get planning permission to extend my carpark to allow patient access. People got planning to build houses by a busy airport and those same planning decisions are now strangling the airport. Madness.

I was working at the weekend and there were many cases of Flu in both younger and older patients. Please, if you haven't already, avail of your flu vaccine at your GP or pharmacist.

For mental health we have a BIO - PSYCHO - SOCIAL model of care. The longer I do this job tho the more I think we have it backwards. For so many of my patients, their anxiety / depression is only "cured" when their SOCIAL situation improves.

We are still talking about having a digital record when the conversation should be - should we use AI to allow our clinicians to do more and work more efficiently. We are such a tiny country - not having nationally digitised health records in 2024 is simply daft.

Doctors keep us alive when we are sick. Farmers keep us alive from the moment we are born. They provide our food and we really don't look after them well enough. There are few jobs tougher, or more underappreciated, than farming.

I think my favourite thing as a GP is when a patient comes in to talk about just one issue. Where we can spend the entire consult tackling one thing in detail instead of trying to superficially sort 4-5 issues in the one visit.

I was today years old when I realised that all statutory maternity leave, and all statutory parental leave is not "backfillable" in the public sector. I think it is a great idea that maternity leave exists in Ireland (it does not exist everywhere), and I also agree with the

Almost every child I have seen this week has RSV. Antibiotics / Steroids / Inhalers do nothing for this condition. If your child has a cough, please read this www2.hse.ie/conditions/rsv/

Weird one, but who signs off on the change of speed limits? Not sure we voted for it. Never saw a mandate for it. Never saw a cost-benefit analysis for it. Seems like a big change to the country and where is the tipping point that big changes should be voted on?

"Just 10%" Is there any other profession that goes to Uni for 6 years, trains for atleast another 10years and 10% of whom working on a bank holiday would not be considered an unusually high number? Doctors are people too. We have families we want to see. thejournal.ie/just-10-of-hos…

I was today years old when I discovered that the Tesco Ireland Clubcard App has vouchers… 🤦

Say what you want... Sometimes, medicine is just awesome.

I wonder what a healthcare minister, who actually gets healthcare workers on side and cares about improving morale, would look like. Healthcare requires teamwork; a football manager who tells everyone their players are shit / lazy will always loose the team.

It is a terrible situation to require medical care and not be able to access it. Unfortunately, there seems to be more political interest in flogging the medics trying to deliver more to increase workload to unsafe levels than sensible, sustainable resolutions to the issue.

I’ve just muted Musk and Trump. Don’t follow either but both taking up an inordinate amount of space on my feed. The absence of negativity is much more powerful than trying to add more positivity. Here’s to hopefully a, slightly, more pleasant experience on twitter /X

I would argue that beds and facilities are less important than staff. Having enough doctors, physios, nurses etc with enough capacity to intervene in disease processes early keeps people out of hospital. Our staffing shortfalls are likely increasing our need for beds. Staff no1

This is a great point. Care and delivery of care needs to be patient focused.

We are a tiny, wealthy country and should have one of the best health systems on the globe. I believe, to my core, that the greatest problem with the Irish healthcare system is its politicization. There is just no room for political gaming in healthcare.