HSE recruiting foreign NCHDs through EURES

The HSE is using EURES, the European public recruitment and career service, to advertise across the EU to fill NCHD posts. This follows the move to extend the Executive’s existing overseas programmes to attract junior doctors on fixed-term contracts from Eastern Europe. The HSE said it recruited NCHDs from a range of EU states — not strictly confined to Eastern European countries. As part of a stringent new approach, each hospital must now specify how additional hours available under the Haddington Road Agreement are being applied, including to provide extended days, additional opening hours and the offset of costs to…