Another significant milestone in the vaccine rollout reached today: GPs & their practice teams have now administered 2m doses! All of this was achieved on top of all of their other commitments. Major congrats & thanks to Irish Medical Organisation Irish College of GPs IGPNEA Tom O'Dowd Nuala O Connor

I’m morphing over to @[email protected] to see how it goes. Give me a follow and we can blow bubbles.

Appeal to medical students and young doctors from a GP. Please consider child and adolescent psychiatry as a career. Families are desperate for help; we need urgent help for teams to respond to their needs. Go abroad to see how they do it but please come back.

The impact of RSV vaccine is enormous! No babies in #PedsICU < 5 months as all vaccinated - it’s wonderful 🏆 Lots of babies admitted age >5 months so plenty of #RSV in community #VaccinesWork

This is a remarkable piece of writing from an ED physician about handling a difficult and unusual case in a way that helped everyone- including herself. Worth a read this Christmas. huffpost.com/entry/emergenc…

Wow! Hits the nail on the head. This editorial traces the deprofessionalisation of NHS general practice. The legacy of austerity, bad politics and a proud profession caving in to box ticking. The British Journal of General Practice Irish College of GPs HSE Ireland DOI: doi.org/10.3399/bjgp25…

New year resolutions hitting GP practices. Irish College of GPs IGPNEA 1880 GPs and GPNs registered for webinar. Hypertension in young people, ever present diabetes and antenatal care. Happy New Year to all.

My home country Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 NO cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation! None! Zero! What a stunning achievement ! The HPV vaccine ie a modern medical miracle!

Astonishing study: “……provides evidence of a dementia-preventing or dementia-delaying effect from zoster vaccination that is less vulnerable to confounding and bias than the existing associational evidence.”HHS.gov nature.com/articles/s4158…

A prediction : in 5 years the health scandal of the year will be the way we currently trifle with the mental health of children and adolescents. CAHMS is a disgrace. I dread parents coming in asking for mental health help for their child. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD

Tom O'Dowd This is the best I could do, Tom.

Tom O'Dowd This might do it Tom.

What makes for a good consultation with your GP ? Good run through with Brendan O’Connor RTÉ this morning 🤔😉 Irish Medical Times RCGP Republic of Ireland Faculty 🇮🇪 Suzanne Crowe deirdre lundy she/her/radiant goddess of menopuase William Behan 🍉 Ray Walley Royal College of General Practitioners Tom O'Dowd Dr Tom Clonan Jean Callanan Jean M.🇮🇪 rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Antibiotic resistance is a dangerous issue. Saw a patient with recurrent & persistent urinary symptoms. Lab shows her urine resistant to 10 out of 11 antibiotics. Only sensitive to an intravenous antibiotic. In a lot of trouble with a common complaint. Irish College of GPs HSE Ireland

Had 2 ‘Google translate’ consultations this morning. Both vulnerable refugees. Hard going for everyone. Human translator now vanishingly rare. IT cheaper but no match for personal translation.

This is an obituary in our community newspaper Tallaght Echo about a much loved GP Dr Des Coady. He was funny, kind, modest and utterly committed to his patients. He made the vulnerable feel safe. Makes the rest of us proud - and feel very inadequate. A hero.

NHS junior doctors are now called residents. We use ‘non-consultant hospital doctor’. Defining yourself with a negative is not good and ‘junior’ is worse. Plus 6-700 are in GP training posts with no aspiration to a consultant career. Irish Medical Organisation Irish College of GPs