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HSE rehired staff keep pension, salaries
NURSES and doctors who are re-hired by the HSE through a private agency will be able to keep their pension and salary. (Independent) > Filed under: Doctors, HSE, Nursing Tagged: Staffing
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Adrian Honan and Marguerite Carter on keeping medical staff in Ireland
Sir, – James Reilly has stated that it is a “perversity” that the best and brightest in Ireland train as doctors and are then “pushed out” of the country. He wonders why this is so (“Reilly to act over...
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More senior medics needed on labour wards ‘to cut cases of cerebral palsy’
Dr Sam Coulter-Smith, master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, said the incidence of babies with cerebral palsy had not reduced in the past 20 years despite the increase in foetal monitoring and...
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HSE agrees to recruit hundreds of junior doctors
It is understood that under the settlement proposals worked out at the Labour Relations Commission, the HSE has finally agreed to a timescale to implement the maximum working week of 48 hours....
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Brendan McCann on ‘compromised’ clinical care
Emergency department overcrowding causes increased morbidity and mortality for patients. A similar gulf probably exists between the service that Minister for Health Dr James Reilly aspires to for his...
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No cardiac unit has enough staff, study reveals: Irish Heart Foundation
Not one cardiac unit in the country has enough staff to provide an aftercare service to those recovering from heart attacks that is credited with cutting death rates by up to 25%. According to a study...
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Extra healthcare payments evolved over the years
Senior managers in State-funded voluntary hospitals and health agencies – officially known as section 38 organisations – are public servants. However, for years the full remuneration package of senior...
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“current feeding frenzy with regard to the remuneration of hospital CEOs is...
Sir, – The current feeding frenzy with regard to the remuneration of hospital CEOs is not easy for health professionals to understand. The CEO of a large hospital is responsible for the utilisation of...
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‘High-level contest’ to find new deputy pathologist
THE Department of Justice has been given permission to conduct a “high-level competition” to replace Deputy State Pathologist Dr Khalid Jaber after his shock resignation. Junior Health Minister...
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Baby deaths ‘not linked’ to hospital’s staff levels
THE Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Health has said the incidents surrounding the deaths of four babies at Portlaoise Hospital were not caused by a lack of staff but rather a culture within...
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