Dear Editor, I enjoy my weekly read of Irish Medical Times. However, the perennial gloomy headlines (‘On-site assessments to begin by April — Council’, ‘EC seeks meeting on EWTD’, and ‘HSE delays stymie return of NCHDs’, IMT, February 3, 2012, http://bit.ly/wXM5bS) are in sharp contrast to the pictures of smiling GPs in the events pages, [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The European Commission is to seek a meeting with the Government regarding Ireland’s failure to comply with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) for NCHDs, Irish Medical Times has established.
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The HSE National Recruitment Service has received 3,492 applications as part of the centralised recruitment exercise of NCHDs, of which 489 were from applicants currently registered with the Medical Council, Irish Medical Times reports.
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Ireland has submitted a plan outlining a three-year time-frame for achieving compliance with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) for NCHDs.
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The new Dean of Postgraduate Specialist Training at the RCPI is set to prioritise a new model of training, as well as engagement with NCHDs on training issues.
By Gary Culliton. The shortfall in regard to middle-grade NCHDs is “potentially worse” than it was last July, according to the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM).
By Lloyd Mudiwa. It is now certain there will be a shortage of NCHDs in Irish public hospitals in the New Year, after there were a number of no-shows in the just-ended qualification examinations for registration in the new Supervised Division, partially owing to the mishandling of the recruitment of doctors from India and Pakistan [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Ninety-eight per cent of NCHDs in Cork University Hospital (CUH) have voted in favour of industrial action over the non-payment of unrostered overtime they worked, according to the IMO.
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The IMO has reluctantly balloted NCHDs working in Cork University Hospital (CUH) for industrial action over the non-payment by hospital management for unrostered overtime worked.
Dear Editor, There has been much discussion, debate and concern expressed over the recent recruitment drive for NCHDs from Pakistan and India, in terms of the quality of the candidates, but a lot of this concern has been misplaced.
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