Financial expert David McCaffrey examines the latest changes to medical VAT and the up-to-date implications for locums who have incorporated and the practices employing them.
Recruitment website cuts out ‘middle-man’
June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa An innovative family doctor who set up a website that enables GP practices to directly recruit locums for as little as €34, thereby cutting out the need for hiring a ‘middle-man’ and the associated locum agency costs, believes his site will help doctors to ease some of the increasing financial pressures they face. [...]
ED cover crisis is creating hazards
June 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton A number of Emergency Departments (EDs) now present concerns in relation to patient safety, the President of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) Mr Fergal Hickey has warned. An ED that was dependent on locum provision was by definition a department that was “less safe than a department with an ongoing [...]
Many posts being staffed by locums
May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. While a number of SHO and Registrar posts remain vacant, many of these are being filled by agency or short-term locums, particularly in Letterkenny, Our Lady of Lourdes and Cavan, the HSE has said.
NCHD locum gap responsibility of hospitals — HSE
April 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. It is the responsibility of hospitals to manage any failures by the recruitment agency now contracted to source NCHD locums, the HSE has said.
Locum move to hit GPs
February 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. Any pledges by political parties to increase the number of GPs in the health service, while Revenue is disincentivising locum cover, defies logic, the IMO has said. Speaking following a GP meeting in Sligo, Dr Ray Walley suggested to Irish Medical Times that Revenue’s crackdown on locums would have a significant knock-on [...]
120 NCHD posts are covered by locums
February 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. Approximately 120 NCHD positions are currently being filled by locums, the HSE’s National Director for Human Resources Seán McGrath has confirmed.
Co-op is ‘proof’ of locum cover says NEDOC GP
June 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There has been no change in HSE policy in relation to reimbursing GPs for study leave in line with contractual arrange-ments, according to the HSE. In a statement responding to last week’s report that the Primary Care Reimbursement Scheme (PCRS) was refusing to pay GPs study leave for CME, the HSE said: “The approval arrangement [...]
Locums must have PAYE deducted
November 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There are concerns GP co-ops could incur increased staff costs because locums working at one out-of-hours service have been deemed employees by tax officials. The Appeals Commissioners has upheld a decision by Revenue that MIDOC, which operates in Longford and Westmeath, must deduct PAYE from doctors providing out-of-hours cover. The full details of the decision [...]
Illegible vetting forms for locums returned
December 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A significant number of garda vetting applications for locum doctors are being returned to doctors because they are illegible, a spokesman for the National Recruitment Federation (NRF) told Irish Medical Times. Meanwhile, a ‘small number of undesirables’ have been stopped from working in Irish hospitals. Director of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Mr Frank Collins, said [...]
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