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‘Unsafe’ numbers of public health doctors
Anthony Owens, IMO IR By Lloyd Mudiwa. Numbers of public and community health doctors have declined to such an extent that practitioners in the specialties now see the service as being unsafe. “The...
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Executive is now 630 WTEs below the staffing ceiling
Photo by Garo/Phanie / Rex Features By Lloyd Mudiwa. The health sector is 630 whole-time equivalents (WTEs) below the current approved employment ceiling, with an outturn of 101,407 WTEs versus an...
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IMO denounces treatment of overseas doctors hired
Photo by OJO Images / Rex Features By Lloyd Mudiwa. The IMO has deplored the treatment of the doctors hired from Asia to fill NCHD shortfalls two years ago, stating that similar to other Irish...
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Growth in WTE employment is seen at West hospital groups
Photo by Jochen Sand / Mood Board / Rex Features By Gary Culliton. There was a combined employment growth of 75 whole-time equivalents (WTEs) in the first two months of the year at the Mid West and...
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A return to BT medicine
Dr Ruairi Hanley Dr Ruairi Hanley examines the looming crisis for rural healthcare due to the inability to attract GPs, consultants and NCHDs to work outside our major cities. Some years ago, I...
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MC must prioritise skills retention
Prof Kieran Murphy By Lloyd Mudiwa & Dara Gantly. Outgoing Medical Council President Prof Kieran Murphy has advised the incoming Council to prioritise the retention of “highly educated”...
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NCHD job terminations to be addressed — HSE
Photo by Jochen Sand / Mood Board / Rex Features By Gary Culliton. The issue of NCHDs having to terminate employment prior to recommencing in different HSE areas is expected to be addressed by the...
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Cuts ‘causing a manpower crisis’
Martin Varley, IHCA By Gary Culliton. Pay cuts result in vacant hospital consultant posts, the IHCA has said. “Highly-mobile personnel” are being offered much better terms and conditions in other...
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HSE launches probe into NCHD exodus
Prof Eilis McGovern, HSE National Programme Director for Medical Training By Gary Culliton. NCHDs feel “isolated and uninformed”, according to Prof Eilis McGovern, the HSE’s National Programme...
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10% drop in health staff since 2007
Photo by Garo/Phanie / Rex Features By Lloyd Mudiwa. The health sector has reduced its numbers of staff by 10 per cent — or by 11,265 whole-time equivalents (WTEs) — since employment levels peaked in...
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HSE to cut 3,500 staff
Photo by Garo/Phanie / Rex Features By Lloyd Mudiwa. Even as it was reported that the HSE turned down the vast majority of applications for its three-year incentivised career break scheme, it has come...
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100 vacancies in July rotations
Photo by Garo/Phanie / Rex Features By Gary Culliton. Currently there are approximately 100 NCHD posts vacant in Irish hospitals, the HSE has confirmed, which constitutes 2 per cent of all posts...
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Specialties could face shortages in staffing — IMC report
Photo by Garo/Phanie / Rex Features By Lloyd Mudiwa. There were no new specialists under the age of 40 years old in at least six medical specialties in 2012, which was usually a precursor for manpower...
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High reliance on international graduates — workforce report
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Ireland had a heavy reliance on international medical graduates to meet its health workforce needs, the Medical Council has said. A report on the annual registration retention survey...
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MC must know Ireland is no longer immured from the rest of the world
Photo by Image Broker / Rex Features Dear Editor, I am writing in reply to the news item relating to the recent workforce report from the Irish Medical Council, and in particular the apparent “failure...
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EWTD compliance a must
Photo by Garo/Phanie / Rex Features Dear Editor, I am pleased to see that the Minister for Health is endeavouring to get EWTD compliance for all non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) in Ireland. In...
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Cost of hiring staff ‘cut by 60 per cent’
Dr James Reilly By Gary Culliton. The net effect of establishing the National Recruitment Service (NRS) has been a reduction in average cost per person hired of 60 per cent, the HSE has said. There...
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Ireland has ‘too few doctors’ to cope with increase in rate of transplants
Senator Colm Burke By Gary Culliton. Ireland does not currently have a sufficient number of medical personnel to deal with an increase in the number of transplants, a Fine Gael Senator has warned. The...
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Agency costs were €8.5 million in first half of 2013
Barry O'Brien, HSE By Gary Culliton. The HSE’s NCHD agency costs were €18.3 million in 2012 and €8.5 million in the first half of this year. The cost of ED agency NCHDs was €3.9 million in 2012 and...
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Morale-sapping pension uncertainty is ongoing
Photo by OJO Images / Rex Features By Lloyd Mudiwa. A full year on, the one issue where no progress can be reported is securing appropriate funding of its staff pension scheme, the IBTS Chief...
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