Editorial: Doctors recently held a forum to voice their frustration at the state of the health service, writes medical editor John Latham.
News: DL certificate in mental health... Doctors' health on the agenda... Major changes for GPs with new Medical Practitioners Bill... Online resource for health and safety at work.
Cover story: Non-national patients may be under-utilising the health service, writes Triona O'Shea and Anne Marie Mongan.
Cover story: Anne MacFarlane et al look at the language barrier in general practice.
Professor James McCormick - an Appreciation: One of the architects of modern Irish general practice, James McCormick, died suddenly in January, 2007.
Feature: Rolande Anderson reviews the alcohol project and its continued success.
Feature: The MICGP exam is moving with the times, writes Triona Marnell.
Feature: Gillian Doran looks at the services offered by the College's library.
Research: Claire Collins looks forward to a major initiative on Irish GP research.
Practice Management: Art Grimes on how important it is to review your retirement fund.
GP IT: Brian Meade on an IT solution to long neurology waiting lists.
Medico-legal: GPs run the risk of being sued for an employee's mistake
Practice Management: Your practice-related questions tackled by the College MiPP.
Research: Orla Coughlan on the need to bring clarity to the advance directive issue.
World View: Pat Breen dons the boardshorts for a four-month Australian practice stint.
Diary: Round up of meetings and events of interest to GPs.
Clinical Review: Ciara O'Boyle and Declan Lyons look at strategies to treat depression.
Clinical Review: A study reports that GPs provide a good standard of diabetes care.
Dermatology: A recent conference looked at skin cancer and other dermatology topics.
Women's Health: The Crisis Pregnancy Agency has produced a new information resource for primary care.
Clinical Review Series: A selection of reviews of papers from the world's leading medical journals, as chosen by our panel of GPs. Readers wishing to obtain copies of the papers can email their requests with reference number for each article.
From The Trenches: Michael O'Brien on why GPs should facilitate patients rather than dictate to them.
Latham at Large: The Methadone Programme is still transforming patients' lives, writes John Latham.
Distance Learning: Cardiology: This month's distance learning programme for GPs deals with HDL cholesterol. The programme is study leave-approved.
ICGP journal supplement
| Format | Weblink |
|---|---|
| Keywords | periodicals |
| Publisher | MedMedia Ltd |
| Classification | periodicals |
| Volume | 24 |
| ISSN | 0790-9977 |
| Pages | 71 |
| Categories: | Irish Content, Forum, ICGP Resources |
| External Link | http://www.icgp.ie/go/library/forum?spid=96E92056-E906-71F5-3798AF8CFB69365C |
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