Celebrating our 40th Anniversary! "Over the last forty years, the Irish College of GPs has become the home for setting standards of General Practice." Eamonn Shanahan, Immediate Past President. Join us at this year's National Conference to celebrate all our achievements!

Public Consultation about Health & Social Care Services & Supports for Older People now open. Find out more at gov.ie/ConsultationOl… #HaveYourSay #OlderPeople

Improving women's healthcare and developing gender-specific interventions is a priority. Through the Women's Health Fund, we are supporting the Irish Heart Foundation Her Heart Matters campaign to highlight the risks and symptoms of heart disease and stroke experienced by women.

Using sunbeds for the first time before the age of 35 increases your risk of developing melanoma skin cancer by 75%. Be #SunSmart and never use sunbeds. Learn more: bit.ly/4eF6Wwr

It can sometimes be hard to know what to say. Sign up and learn how to have these important conversations: traininghub.nosp.ie #LetsTalkAboutSuicide

Do you think Health & Social Care Services & Supports for Older People could be improved? Public Consultation open until 24 Oct. Have your say at gov.ie/ConsultationOl… #HaveYourSay #OlderPeople

Join us next Friday at the National Conference! Stop by our booth during the afternoon break to meet: Dr. Shane McKeogh, Adult Respiratory Clinical Lead & Dr. Eamonn O'Shea, Cardiovascular Clinical Lead. See you there!

New HSE resources for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes HSE Ireland #diabetes #hse #NCPD medicalindependent.ie/clinical-news/…

Great experience presenting at NIPC over the weekend. Fantastic conference and a great chance to link with colleagues from all parts of the health service.

Vaccinations are essential in protecting babies from serious illnesses. For babies born on or after 1 October 2024, there's a new vaccine schedule. If your baby arrived on or before 30 September 2024, stick with the current vaccine plan. Learn more here: bit.ly/4f3dFk6

High blood pressure can often be prevented or reduced. Find out more about symptoms, causes, and treatment of high blood pressure: bit.ly/3UBmvxl

Our colleague, Professor Donal O'Shea gives a great #TedTalk here on Understanding #Obesity, highlighting the rationale for the HSE Obesity Model of Care: youtu.be/YzP3umk8TWA?si…

PRESS RELEASE GPs urge parents to ensure children are vaccinated for whooping cough as case numbers rise. Read our press release here. bit.ly/3CBCLIq #pertussis #whoopingcough #vaccinate

Thanks HSE Health & Wellbeing for a chance to talk about #diabetes, mental and physical burden, stigma&the importance of receiving excellent diabetes care, modern treatments and technology. & of course, highlight our all hard Diabetes Ireland work! Delighted to share it with super Cathy Breen PhD RD

Inaccurate reporting alert 🚨... Important to understand differences between GPs and hospital docs here i.e. We do all our own clinical follow up... 1/7 independent.ie/irish-news/one…

And anyone who knows anything about GP knows that we do a lot of work "behind the scenes" to keep patients safe. And we generally don't have teams of NCHDs to help. 3/7

How much work behind the scenes? Best estimate from a cracking study using smartphones led by Brendan Crosbie, GP in Roscommon... Available at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32482628/ 4/7

Basically, 2 hours consulting = 1 hour other work... 5/7

So back to our headline? "One in three active GPs working 45-hour week or less, study on family doctor shortage reveals"... Or "Two-thirds of GPs working more than 45hrs per week!"... 6/7

Ignoring the work that GPs stay behind in surgery/take home/log-in from home to complete in the background to keep patients safe is wholly inaccurate 7/7 Medical Independent @irishmednews Irish College of GPs AGPI Liam Glynn Suzanne Crowe Paul Nolan Irish Medical Organisation Irish Independent