The figures are stark enough but don’t tell the whole story – cancer rates in lower socio-economic groups are more than double the rate in better-off populations; males living in the poorest neighbourhoods will on average die 4.3 years earlier than those living in wealthier neighbourhoods; circulatory diseases...

The adolescent years can be a time of major changes and challenges, both for the young people concerned and the GPs who treat them. We undertook research to investigate the frequency and reasons for the attendance of teenagers at our practice in Ballymun, Co Dublin. The results showed that there was a marked...