Public health doctors want no part in ‘clinically’ unsafe service

The IMO has alerted the HSE, which they say has failed to provide the relevant supports for a properly functioning out-of-hours cover almost five years after its establishment, that public health doctors (PHDs) no longer wish to be a party to the delivery of an unsafe service. A deadline set by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) for the implementation of recommendations of a review into the interim public health service designed to place it on a more formal basis passed at the end of October 2011. In a letter dated March 21, 2014, IMO Assistant Director Industrial Relations Anthony Owens…