2006 Press Releases

December 2006

• Medical Council launches Competence Assurance procedures
• Medical Council publishes research on doctors and complaints process

November 2006

• Anne Maher to be first Chair of Medical Council Performance Committee

October 2006

• Council representatives attend Healthcare Crossing Borders Agreement Conference in Helsinki
• Mr John Lamont, Registrar, announces the outcome of the Medical Council elections

September 2006

• Medical Council President says hospitals must be licensed

August 2006

• Medical Council publishes schemes for competence assurance for doctors

March 2006

• Medical Council to host consultative forum on competence assurance structures
• Statement by President John Hillery following March Council meeting
• Professor Drumm to open Medical Council forum
• Public trust in the medical professions must be restored through openess and accountability, says Medical Council President.
• End tenuous position of foreign medics in Irish system, says Dr Hillery
• Medical Council President says doctors should be legally obliged to report colleagues
• Statement by President John Hillery with regard toThe Report of Judge Maureen Harding Clarke into Medical Practices at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda

February 2006

• Medical Council President calls on all doctors to engage voluntarily with competence assurance procedures