By Lloyd Mudiwa. Ireland is the biggest recruiter of foreign-trained nurses and doctors in the OECD, figures would suggest.
Locums hired for Tallaght
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. AMNCH Tallaght Hospital’s Orthopaedic Department has said it is managing to maintain service, despite losing senior consultant staff.
Foreign recruits unite over pass rates and ‘criticism’
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Less than half of the candidates who last month sat clinical examinations for registration under the Supervised Division passed, Irish Medical Times has established. This compares to an 88 per cent pass rate in the previous sitting in August.
NCHD shortage is now an established reality
January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
NCHD vacancies persist
December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Unanticipated delays in the registration of many of the NCHDs recruited from India and Pakistan have meant that agency doctors are still required to fill 128 posts, the HSE has said.
Employment moratorium ‘exempts certain grades’ says Minister for Health
November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. The Employment Control Framework for the health sector requires a net reduction in employment of approximately 1,500 staff a year for the next three years, the Minister of Health has said.
Real danger new posts will not be filled
October 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
By Gary Culliton. Great difficulties have arisen in hospitals in recruiting doctors at registrar and even at consultant level, an Oireachtas Committee has been told by the IHCA.
Overseas recruits not the solution
October 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
Our ’clueless’ and ‘dysfunctional’ health service has again come under the Oireachtas spotlight, reports Gary Culliton.
‘Priority’ cancer posts remain unfilled at UCHG
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. It has not been possible, to date, to increase the number of radiography staff at University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) “despite repeated efforts”, the HSE has said.
DoH to hire Assistant Secretary General
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The Department of Health is recruiting for an Assistant Secretary General to replace Jim Breslin, who was promoted in July to Secretary General in the Department of Children.
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