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The past several decades have seen a shift in patient care towards digitalisation, which has ushered in a new era of health care delivery and improved sustainability and resilience of health systems, with positive impacts on both internal and external stakeholders. This study’s aim was to understand the role of digital virtual consultations in improving internal and external stakeholders’ health, as well as wellbeing among hospital doctors. A qualitative research approach was used with semi-structured online interviews administered to hospital doctors. The interviews showed that the doctors viewed digital virtual consultations as supplementary to in-person consultations, and as tools to reduce obstacles related to distance and time. If the necessary infrastructure and technology were in place, doctors would be willing to use these options. Implementing these technologies would improve the medical profession’s flexibility on the one hand; but it might affect doctors’ work–life balance if consultations extended beyond standard working hours., peer-reviewed

Though Malta is not a leading country in the production of alcoholic beverages, it "is a wine and beer producing country and alcohol drinking is socially and traditionally acceptable" (Baldacchino, 1991). Although figures on per capital consumption rates, alcohol production an distribution have never been published, availability of alcoholic beverages is relatively high and approximately 2.5 million litres of alcoholic beverages are imported for local use annually (Central Office of Statistics, 1980-1988). A study of the epidemiology of alcoholism and the attitudes of the pharmacists and doctors was evaluated., peer-reviewed