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GSK to stop payments to healthcare professionals for attending medical conferences

GlaxoSmithKline overhauls sales practices

GlaxoSmithKline will stop paying doctors to promote its products at events and will remove individual sales targets for its marketing staff.

Business • 17 Dec 13

The NAGP said some doctors could choose not to take part in the free care scheme

Doctors warn some GPs may not operate free scheme

Doctors have said the free GP care scheme for five-year-olds and under, as proposed by the Government, will not be a "high-end" service because it will not be properly funded.

News • 21 Oct 13

Hospitals will face financial sanctions if they do not stick to rules on working hours for non consultant hospital doctors

Low morale highlighted at doctor conference

Medical experts have warned of the impact of low morale and stress among doctors on patient care.

News • 20 Oct 13

Talks resume at the LRC over doctors' working hours

IMO talks with HSE on doctors' hours resume

Talks between the Health Service Executive and the Irish Medical Organisation were due to resume this morning at the Labour Relations Commission.

News • 15 Oct 13

Doctors are highlighting concerns over long working shifts

Talks in dispute over doctors' hours adjourned

Talks between the Irish Medical Organisation and Health Service Executive aimed at resolving the row over excessive working hours for non-consultant hospital doctors have adjourned.

News • 09 Oct 13

Hospital doctors demonstrating outside St James Hospital, Dublin

IMO 'will consider' LRC invitation to talks

The Irish Medical Organisation has said it will consider an invitation from the Labour Relations Commission to return to talks when its junior doctor committee meets tomorrow.

News • 08 Oct 13

Doctors are due to hold strike action on Tuesday

Appeal for IMO to return to LRC talks

Minister for Health James Reilly has appealed to the Irish Medical Organisation to return to the Labour Relations Commission and avoid strike action over long hours for junior doctors.

News • 03 Oct 13

The NCHD Committee of the IMO will meet again on Thursday

IMO seeks greater detail on HSE proposals

The IMO has said HSE proposals on reducing the working hours of non-consultant hospital doctors do not go far enough to warrant putting them to a ballot of members.

News • 23 Sep 13

The IMO's Eric Young said doctors had no alternative to going on strike

IMO and HSE discuss arrangements for strike

A meeting between the HSE and the Irish Medical Organisation to discuss contingency arrangements for the one-day junior doctors' strike on 25 September has ended.

News • 06 Sep 13

97% of those balloted backed industrial action

Junior doctors to take industrial action

Non-consultant hospital doctors have voted in favour of industrial action over long working hours, which they say are unsafe for patients and staff.

News • 02 Sep 13

The Competition Authority had challenged the planned withdrawal of GP services

IMO agrees to suspend withdrawal of GP services

The Irish Medical Organisation has agreed before the High Court to suspend plans by its GP members to withdraw from certain services in protest at new fee cuts.

News • 23 Jul 13

Under European law, NCHDs should not be working longer than 48 hours a week

Junior doctors in campaign to reduce working hours

Non-consultant hospital doctors have launched a campaign to reduce what they say are dangerously long working hours.

News • 15 Jul 13

IMO's GP group will withdraw from primary care teams and other work not covered by the medical card contract

GPs to withdraw from primary care teams over cuts

The Irish Medical Organisation has said cuts to GP fees marks the abandonment by the Government of any ambition to proceed with free GP care.

News • 10 Jul 13

Over 18,000 medical practitioners are registered to work in Ireland

Complaints against doctors up 12% last year

New figures from the Medical Council reveal that the number of complaints against doctors is increasing, with complaints against 494 doctors received last year.

News • 30 May 13

The IMO claims it would have gone into liquidation if it had paid a payout

IMO urges members to vote No over Croke Park II

The Irish Medical Organisation has passed an emergency motion at its annual conference in Killarney urging all members to vote 'No' in its ballot on the Croke Park II proposals.

News • 05 Apr 13

Survey suggests 92% trust their doctors

The results of a new national survey, commissioned by the Medical Council, suggest that 92% of people trust doctors to tell the truth.

News • 16 Nov 12

New guidelines for doctors and pharma industry

The Medical Council, which polices doctors' behaviour, has issued new guidance on the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry.

News • 11 Oct 12

Pilot error & malfunctioning caused AF 447 crash

A French report has found that human error and technical malfunctions caused the 2009 crash of an Air France flight from Rio to Paris that killed 228 people.

News • 05 Jul 12

Northern Ireland doctors strike over pensions

Doctors in Northern Ireland are on strike today in a dispute over pensions.

News • 21 Jun 12

Delegates attend Irish Medical Organisation conference

IMO hits out at Govt failure on health reform

The Irish Medical Organisation has said doctors are struck with ''concern and despair'' over the failure of the Government to deliver promised health reform.

News • 13 Apr 12

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