This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘The world witnessed what happened in Gaza. It’s happening again now. It’s planned, systematic and is happening in plain sight, while a US president threatens civilisational erasure and what’s left of the international order’ @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Beaumont Hospital paid €1.5m to company in which 20 staff were directors without competitive process

"You cannot disconnect the state of the health service today from what happened to it during Covid." @drkevinfong.bsky.social talks through the latest UK Covid Inquiry findings. Listen to the full interview from the Medicine & Science Podcast - http://bit.ly/4t1BjVR

'all children referred to Camhs have moderate to severe mental health difficulties that require timely assessment and treatment'. www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

‘The healthcare systems coped with the pandemic, but only just. On a number of occasions, they teetered on the brink of collapse and only coped thanks to the almost superhuman efforts of healthcare workers and all the staff who support them.” - Baroness Hallet’

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

The US is determined to starve Cuba of the revenues it raises from exporting healthcare workers.

The NCHD taskforce recommendations aimed to significantly improve NCHDs’ working lives. Catherine Reilly examines what has been delivered https://bit.ly/3N7Lt79 @IMO_IRL @HSE_HR @roinnslainte @NDTP_HSE @eyedoctorsIRL

‘How can they put us out on the street?’: Sligo retirement village residents face eviction www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Consultant in Middle East providing online psychiatric care to young people in Kerry

Delighted to see this paper in print. It’s on doctor retention, doctor migration and the challenges of working in a health system under strain academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic... #DrRetention

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: why using generational differences to explain workplace challenges may be misplaced. By @marianchenry.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This is crazy- there’s a cut to HSE capital plan this year Rising population, more complexity of care & yet less money going into hospital beds, equipment and IT Dept of Health’s own bed plan says it needs to build 2,900 by 2031 But plans only 143 new beds this year 🙄 labour.ie/news/2026/02...

the north Kerry Camhs report: ‘there is still no full-time consultant psychiatrist for the county, which should have a compliment of four consultants. The gap is being met by “input” from consultants from other regions’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

What can be done to improve shambolic mental health service for younger people in Kerry? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Review finds 209 children at risk of potential harm in north Kerry mental health services

Good to see a focus on health worker emigration to Australia today on @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Why are only 12% of radiographers satisfied with their jobs? High workload and under-appreciation are driving burnout, which may explain why over 300,000 Irish patients are currently waiting for diagnostic scans, writes Mark McEntee @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

On CHI: 'The HSE will oversee implementation of Ireland’s most ambitious healthcare IT project at an organisation it is simultaneously integrating, while attempting to move into a building that doesn’t exist. This is governance architecture designed for failure' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Burnout isn’t a personal failure. It’s a design flaw. But there is another way.

Great piece on Ireland's future health and social care workforce strategy by @jimc-hrh.bsky.social and @tiagocorreia.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"If half a million euro can disappear quietly into steps and walls without triggering a serious pause, what happens when the same habits govern housing developments, hospital corridors, transport interchanges, or school refurbishments?" www.thejournal.ie/readme/publi...

Dr Niamh Humphries, Dr Éidín Ní Shé, and Dr Holly Hanlon outline the latest data from the GP retention project https://bit.ly/3ZAWal1 @ICGPnews @RCSI_Irl @IMO_IRL @Slaintecare @NDTP_HSE @HDRM_Project @IMO_IRL #gp #primarycare #generalpractice

Delighted to see our findings from the GP Retention Project in the @medindonews.bsky.social www.medicalindependent.ie/comment/opin... #DrRetention

Trinity researcher told ‘associate professor’ title is purely honorary #loveirishresearch www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

🚨 Exclusive: A dangerous surgeon at @GreatOrmondSt harmed more than a quarter of the children he operated on, a new report is expected to say this week. Now the trust chief tells @thetimes he is "deeply sorry" but there is no evidence of cover-up... www.thetimes.com/article/352e...

What happens when leaders face organisational anxiety head on? Our blog explores how emotional honesty and shared reflection can help leaders navigate complexity and change. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qSYPCr

Great letter in @irishtimes.com by Dr Chris Luke about NCHDs. It details the ‘traditional sources of frustration and humiliation’ NCHDs face daily in the Irish health system. This way of working does not encourage #DrRetention

Two-thirds of healthcare workers ‘actively’ considering leaving role, TASC study finds www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

A key moment in 2026 will be the publication of a new long-term workforce plan for the NHS. In this new blog, James Buchan looks at the central role improving NHS staff retention must play in delivering on the government’s ambitions for the NHS. Read more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4swThyY

‘A total of 75 patients were waiting more than 24 hours, of whom 14 were 75 years or older’ www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

Overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick a serious issue 45 years ago www.irishtimes.com/history/2025...

‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their roles

‘Acute shortage’ of health workers amid ageing demographics, official analysis finds www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

Brianna Parkins: ‘People leave their country when it has let them down – through lack of jobs, economic opportunity and now, housing’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

‘Photographs are out of the question. Corridor care has long been a common practice at many hospitals, but the brutal reality of the NHS’s beds crisis can feel too distressing to expose to others’

Excellent and important piece by the Chief Commissioner of @ihrec.bsky.social, Liam Herrick: Why has Ireland abruptly decided the European Convention on Human Rights goes too far? – The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Reflections & Guidance on Using Ethnographic Approaches in Health & Care Research Lauren Ramsey, Graham Martin, Nicola Mackintosh, Jennifer Creese, Elisa Liberati, Charlotte Overton, Georgia Spiliopoulos, Krysia Canvin, Rachael Kelley, Justin Waring journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New paper under the leadership of the wonderful @niamhhumphries.bsky.social, we look at #GP in #Ireland- Changing Working Patterns in Irish general practice: Findings from a Qualitative Remote Ethnographic Study doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

Tensions within coalition

New figures from @newsnmc.bsky.social show international nurse & midwife recruitment is falling fast. Tightened immigration rules risks deepening workforce shortages, putting patient safety at risk. We need an honest debate on immigration’s vital role in health & care. Read: https://bit.ly/44KFfQ0

Fertility, family planning, pregnancy & motherhood among women doctors... Sanjana Biju, Caoimhe Madden, Paul O’Connor, Dara Byrne, @niamhhumphries.bsky.social, Grant Jeffrey, Jennifer Finnegan, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Sarah Fitzgibbon, Sinéad Lydon bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

'At some point, somebody somewhere should have asked what the underlying mechanisms of failure are; the unseen seams in the State that keep producing outcomes in which responsibility dissolves and innocent people pay the price'. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...