ST Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny is seeking to suspend a senior hospital consultant who failed to obtain consent before carrying out gynaecological work on women patients. The obstetrician at the centre of the case has said he did not feel he needed to obtain consent for “exploratory” tests he carried out on five female […]
KILKENNY has one of the lowest levels of GPs in the entire country. There are just 0.61 registered doctors per 1,000 people in the county, well over a third the recommended number, which is 1 per 1,000. The findings are contained in research published by the Medical Council last week. It undertook the research in […]