Editorial
Healthcare negotiations can often be a slow, laborious, affair. The consultant contract 2008 took over a decade of talks before…
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After the summer break, conference season is back in full swing. The usual line-up of clinical meetings organised by the…
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The ascension of Boris Johnson to British Prime Minister has made the prospect of a no-deal Brexit much more likely.…
Not long after the appointment of a new HSE CEO and board, and another round in what seems to be…
The recent Your Training Counts report from the Medical Council made for stark reading for anyone interested in the wellbeing…
Institutional memory is the collective knowledge and learned experiences of a group. It is a way for an institution to…
In his time as Minister for Health, the former Taoiseach Brian Cowen once famously referred to the Department of Health…
Public health doctors were not a happy group towards the end of last year. The group were becoming increasingly frustrated at the continuing pay disparity between themselves and other specialists and their lack of consultant status. Not only that, but they were not even permitted to see the Review of Public Health Medicine, commissioned by the Department of Health and conducted by the consultancy firm Crowe, regarding the future of the specialty.
As usual, the HSE published its service plan just when most people were turning their attention away from the news towards the reprieve of the Christmas period. Although the completion of the plan has to abide by certain timelines, it is almost as if the Executive doesn’t want a detailed and forensic examination of its annual mission statement.
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