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Letter to the Editor: I could have suffered same fate as tragic psychiatric patients

Sir — In last week’s Sunday Independent, Colin Murphy wrote that “in the 1950s, Ireland had the highest proportion of psychiatric beds in the world” and also that an inquiry is warranted into former psychiatric institutions similar to other residential institutions that have been investigated in Ireland. I agree.

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Hospital working conditions compromising patient safety

A new report from the Medical Council says that exhausted and overworked doctors are treating patients across the country, at a potential risk to their wellbeing

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44% increase in the number of Irish doctors emigrating to Australia since 2018

Despite travel restrictions in place last year, the number of doctors emigrating to Australia alone increased last year.

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Complaints against doctors dropped by 35% in 2020

One GP was struck off while three had conditions attached to their registration

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Fix pay disparity to end consultant exodus, says IHCA

Prof Alan Irvine, President of the IHCA
Fix pay disparity to end consultant exodus, says IHCA
A damning report revealing 23 specialists a month were quitting the Irish health service was further evidence of the country’s consultant recruitment crisis, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has said.
Days after the IHCA highlighted Health Service Executive (HSE) figures showing more than 612,000 people were waiting for an appointment to see a hospital consultant, a report from the Medical Council revealed that 453 specialists had left the medical profession between January 2019 and August 2020.
The Council’s Medical Workforce Intelligence Report also stated that Ireland had the lowest number of consultant doctors in the European Union (EU), at 1.49 per 1,000 population, while 25 per cent of doctors who had withdrawn their registration during the same 20-month period were specialists.

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