The health of our citizens must have a higher priority than the health of our financial institutions, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association said in its response to Budget 2011. “There has been some small attempt to reduce the overburdened administrative side of the HSE,” the Association accepted. “Nevertheless, the recruitment embargo on front-line staff has [...]
The IMO is seeking immediate engagement with the Government to ensure Section 4 of the Competition Act is amended, so as to ensure the IMO has full participation in the transformation programme following commitments made in the Croke Park public sector agreement. Dr Ronan Boland, Chair of the IMO GP Committee, told Irish Medical Times [...]
The IHCA was due to meet HSE CEO Prof Brendan Drumm and National Director of Integration Laverne McGuinness this Thursday (June 3) to discuss the impending shortage of NCHDs from early July. The IHCA is concerned that there will not be sufficient staff to ensure continuity of services. The Association is particularly concerned over the [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has accepted the Croke Park proposals on public sector pay and reform, following meetings of its four craft groups last week. GPs, consultants, public health doctors and NCHDs at meetings on Thursday, May 20, discussed the details of the proposals and returned a result in favour of acceptance. The IMO [...]
Gary Culliton looks at the latest HSE figures on consultants’ public-private mix, examines the suggested inaccuracies in the reports and asks whether the targets are in fact achievable for all There are currently 226 consultants who have received warning letters from the HSE, indicating that their ratios of private to public work are out of [...]
It has become almost a catchphrase for Mary Harney during Ministerial questions: “Due to industrial action affecting the HSE, it’s not possible for the Executive to supply the information requested.” A total of 747 parliamentary questions (PQs) was taken by the Department of Health between March 3 and April 22 – during the ongoing industrial [...]
The Health Service Executive is putting in place a ‘protective’ plan to achieve savings of €200 million immediately. CEO Prof Brendan Drumm said the aim was to target cuts at back office operations. “We’re looking at where we can achieve savings with a minimal effect on frontline services,” Prof Drumm said. Industrial action by HSE [...]
Newly elected President of the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU), Darragh O’Loughlin, has said that pharmacists fear ‘further shocks’ in the industry having lost trust in the Minister for Health and the HSE. With as many as 1,600 jobs lost in the retail pharmacy sector and a 38 percent loss in the net profits of the [...]
Staff morale in the Irish health service is at an all-time low, according to newly elected Irish Medical Organisation President, Prof Seán Tierney. “In more than 20 years of working in the health service, I’ve never seen morale so low among staff everywhere and in every role,” he said. Prof Tierney said the IMO must [...]
Ireland is now facing a very serious shortage of doctors across all specialty groups, according to the Irish Medical Organisation’s Chief Executive, George McNeice, who addressed the IMO AGM in Killarney last week. “According to an ESRI report, this is going to be exacerbated in the next decade,” McNeice said. The manpower shortage may lead [...]
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