Preparing Ireland's Doctors to meet the Health Needs of the 21st Century (Buttimer Report)

The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Group's vision is that Ireland's postgraduate education and trainingenvironment will be attractive to all medical graduates and deliver high-quality programmes that will result in a sufficient number of fully-trained, highly competent doctors to deliver a patientcentred, high-performance health service for this country.â?Âù Click here to download the document View Factors affecting Career Choices and Retention of Irish Medical Graduates, commissioned by the Group and undertaken by the Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, UCD

Review of Current Policy for the Retention of Newborn Screening Cards

Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health requested the Health Service Executive to review the policy regarding the retention and disposal of Newborn Screening Cards (NSCs). The NSCs are an integral component of the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme (NNBSP). The Minister had received representations concerning the archived NSCs stored by the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Laboratory (NNBSL) at the Childrenâ?Ts University Hospital, Temple Street (CUH, T/S).   Click here to download PDF 146kb