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Menopause Patient Information
This list of resources has been assembled by the ICGP's Director of Women's Health, Dr Nóirín O'Herlihy and the ICGP's GP Clinical Lead in Women's Health, Dr Ciara McCarthy. The 5 short videos below are here to give you some general information about Menopause, what...
What does the most recent IPCC Report on Climate Change mean for Irish General Practice?
by Dr Seán Owens, Chair, Sustainability Working Group of the Irish College of General Practitioners Every 5 years the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body for assessing the science relating to climate change, convene and report on the current...
ICGP welcomes the Earth Day 2021 theme #RestoreOurEarth
We recognise that we cannot have healthy patients, healthy doctors, healthy nurses or healthy GP Trainees when we have an unhealthy planet. In May 2019, Ireland became the second country on the planet to declare a climate emergency. That same month, the ICGP...
ICGP supports global effort to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for all
Today is World Health Day (April 7th) and this year’s theme is highly appropriate. In the midst of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s theme is “building a fairer, healthier world”. The theme reflects the #matchmyjab initiative - supported by the ICGP - a...
College’s President marks International Women’s Day 2021
International Women’s Day is a global day in which we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all over the world. It’s also a day to raise awareness of women’s equality and this year the theme is “Choose to Challenge” - from...
President’s Blog: Natural Leaders – Age 85+
She sat on the edge of the couch, legs not quite reaching the floor. I had just administered the first dose of her COVID-19 vaccine. “Is that it?” she said. “Is that what all the fuss is about?”. Having assured her that she had indeed received her injection, I then...
President’s Blog – Coping with COVID Anxiety and Stress
“But I suggest if you are having these feelings, then tell someone, especially if the pandemic has left you struggling with your head junk for the first time. Starting with a GP. More GPs have saved my life than paramedics, because thankfully the former has put me on...
President’s Blog – Standing Tall in Tough Times
I took this photograph of the Rock of Cashel on a recent walk near my home. The Round Tower on the Rock dates from the 12th Century and as I looked at on it on a beautiful winter’s day, I could not help but ponder on all the history it has seen play out in its time....
Social Prescribing, Planetary Health and Primary Care – By Sean Owens
“We cannot divorce our social circumstances for our health” Erasmus is famed for his quote “prevention is better than cure” yet modern healthcare places emphasis and resources towards cure and expensive complications. Perhaps disease-care would be a more appropriate...
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President’s Blog: The Joy of General Practice
Over the years it has often been said to me: “I don’t know how you do it - day in day out listening to tales of pain and suffering and complaining; I could not stick it even for one day”. Yes. as GPs there is no doubt we encounter stories of pain and suffering, both...
President’s Blog: Natural Leaders – Age 85+
She sat on the edge of the couch, legs not quite reaching the floor. I had just administered the first dose of her COVID-19 vaccine. “Is that it?” she said. “Is that what all the fuss is about?”. Having assured her that she had indeed received her injection, I then...
President’s Blog – Coping with COVID Anxiety and Stress
“But I suggest if you are having these feelings, then tell someone, especially if the pandemic has left you struggling with your head junk for the first time. Starting with a GP. More GPs have saved my life than paramedics, because thankfully the former has put me on...
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