A meeting was due to take place this Thursday (July 1) between the IMO and the HSE Employers Agency (HSEEA) to discuss progress on the Saunders report into a public health doctors’ out-of-hours service. Dr Charles Saunders — the current Chairman of the BMA’s Scottish Consultants Committee — was chosen by the HSE and IMO [...]
The first national review of GP out-of-hours services has found there were almost one million contacts with the services in 2008, and patient satisfaction was rated at over 90 per cent. Thirteen recommendations have been made in the review of out-of-hours services relating to patient accessibility, consistency in quality and standards, payments systems and the [...]
The long-awaited independent operational review of the interim out-of-hours public health doctors’ service has been completed and will be available at the forthcoming IMO agm, Irish Medical Times has learned. Directors and specialists in public health medicine received a draft of the report from Scottish expert Dr Charles Saunders last week (March 25) and are [...]
The HSE and IMO have agreed on a Scottish high-ranking representative of the British Medical Association (BMA) to carry out the promised independent operational review of the interim out-of-hours public health doctors’ service. Dr Charles Saunders, a consultant in Public Health Medicine at Fife NHS Board, has until December 31 to complete his review. A [...]
More than one million people in Ireland still do not have access to a formal GP out-of-hours service. Last year approximately 920, 000 calls were made to out-of-hours services, according to the Health Service Executive (HSE). In its Report Against the Corporate Plan 2008 to 2011, the HSE calculates around 3.063 million people, or 72 [...]
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 [...]
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