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Out-of-hours public health docs seek pay

An independent public health doctor (PHD) agreed between the HSE and the IMO will have less than a month to complete a review of the interim out-of-hours PHD service.

The expert, who is understood to be from the UK, is due to begin the review shortly, with the IMO and the Executive due to met this Thursday (November 5) to progress the evaluation report.

Established from June 1, the interim out-of-hours PHD service has seen 10 doctors put on call nationwide at any one time — one doctor per old health board area, two in the old ERHA region, and a further specialist on call in the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

Doctors were offered €575 per week on call to respond to such public health threats as the H1N1 virus.

A review of the remuneration for the interim service was due to have commenced in September and was to be completed by December 1. While the review has yet to get underway, it is understood the December 1 deadline remains.

The IMO and the HSE have agreed that any subsequent changes in pay will be backdated to the commencement of the service.

The deal resolved the long-running dispute over the withholding of a 2.5 per cent pay increase due to PHDs from September 2008 under the national wage agreement ‘Towards 2016’.

In August, Department of Health Secretary General Michael Scanlan also sanctioned application of 5 per cent of the pay increases recommended in Report No. 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector for these grades.

Posted in Public Health on 04 November 2009
Tags: out-of-hours