# medical-council - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
To practice medicine in Ireland you must be registered with the council.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 1 October, 2019
The Medical Council said that upcoming legislation will reform the complaints process.
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# medical-council - Thursday 19 September, 2019
That council has warned that over-prescriptions of the drugs is affecting the safety of Irish patients.
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# medical-council - Thursday 5 September, 2019
One in five complaints made to the Medical Council related to communications issues.
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# medical-council - Wednesday 3 July, 2019
That’s according to a new report by the Medical Council.
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# medical-council - Wednesday 15 August, 2018
The Medical Council has published its findings from inspections at nine hospitals in the south, west and north-west.
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# medical-council - Monday 6 August, 2018
It emerged today that some women who were retested might have to go through the procedure again as their samples are out of date.
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# medical-council - Wednesday 27 June, 2018
The Medical Council said nearly one in five of the complaints related to communication issues.
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# medical-council - Thursday 22 June, 2017
Africa and Pakistan contribute the highest number of non-Irish doctors here.
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# medical-council - Monday 12 December, 2016
The decision led to the termination of a potentially viable embryo.
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Dr Andrea Hermann was also found guilty of professional misconduct.
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# medical-council - Monday 14 November, 2016
Expert witness Dr Philip Owen told the inquiry the woman likely had a continuing normal pregnancy in her womb.
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# medical-council - Monday 3 October, 2016
Dr Muthulingam Kasiraj faces allegations of professional misconduct and poor professional performance.
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# medical-council - Friday 23 September, 2016
Doctor Finbar Magee initially defended his decision to recommend the controversial solution to his patients.
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# medical-council - Monday 12 September, 2016
The woman in question, 37-year-old Laura Esmonde, was administered drugs to treat the ectopic pregnancy and subsequently miscarried her baby.
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# medical-council - Monday 29 August, 2016
Dr Saleem Sharif faces allegations of poor professional performance at a fitness to practice inquiry.
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# medical-council - Thursday 25 August, 2016
The figures are in the latest Medical Council annual report.
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# medical-council - Thursday 4 August, 2016
Dr Mohamed Abdelrahman has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 7 June, 2016
Dr Emmanuel Gbadebo Alabi, originally from Nigeria but with an address in Cork, faces two allegations.
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# medical-council - Sunday 31 January, 2016
Lorraine Courtney writes that naming doctors in fitness to practice inquiries should be scrapped.
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# medical-council - Monday 4 January, 2016
Surgical doctor Omar Hassan, who is representing himself, faces multiple allegations of professional misconduct and poor professional performance at the inquiry.
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# medical-council - Monday 7 December, 2015
A new report also found trainees who gained their medical qualification outside Ireland rated learning environments significantly more highly.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 29 September, 2015
There have been testy exchanges today at surgeon Dr Peter van Geene’s Fitness to Practice inquiry.
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# medical-council - Monday 28 September, 2015
Dr Peter van Geene has been giving his side of events at a Medical Council Fitness to Practice inquiry.
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# medical-council - Wednesday 22 July, 2015
Dr Peter van Geene is the subject of a fitness to practise inquiry by the Medical Council concerning a number of hysterectomies he performed between 2009 and 2011.
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# medical-council - Monday 13 July, 2015
Women, older doctors and doctors who qualified in Ireland are less likely to face serious disciplinary outcomes, according to a new report.
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# medical-council - Monday 29 June, 2015
Dr Saqib Ahmed worked as a registrar in oncology from July to November 2012 at University Hospital Limerick.
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# medical-council - Thursday 4 June, 2015
The number of complaints against qualified doctors is down in general however.
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# medical-council - Monday 23 March, 2015
A fitness to practice committee found 11 allegations against De Mohammed Khan resulted in professional misconduct.
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# medical-council - Monday 23 February, 2015
Dr Declan Egan, a consultant at Galway University Hospital, said that the actions he carried out were reversible.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
The Medical Council is hearing evidence against a consultant from Galway.
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# medical-council - Monday 19 January, 2015
The doctor clipped her fallopian tube without consent.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
The Medical Council heard Dr Mihai Anton “had difficulty putting on gowns and gloves.”
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# medical-council - Thursday 31 July, 2014
There were also four doctors struck off.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 20 August, 2013
Over one in every three doctors working here qualified outside of Ireland.
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# medical-council - Thursday 30 May, 2013
That’s an increase of 12 per cent between 2011 and 2012, according to the council’s annual report.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The Medical Council said it has been concerned about private clinics operating unregulated – which is set to change when a draft bill passes.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
The expert group report makes no recommendation but provides options for Ireland to deal with the ECHR ruling on abortion. The government will make a decision on which option to go for by the end of the year.
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# medical-council - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
Professor Martin Corbally said he was “disappointed” that the Irish Medical Council found him guilty of poor professional practice today.
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# medical-council - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
A total of 380 complaints about doctors were received by the Medical Council last year.
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