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Public health specialists in the IMO have voted to approve the terms of an agreement reached with the Department of Health to resolve the long-running dispute with the Government. In April, the IMO announced that it had reached agreement with the Department of Health and the HSE on the issue and was putting the matter to a ballot of public health specialists with a recommendation that it be accepted. That ballot has now completed and 87 per cent of returned ballots were in favour of accepting the agreement.
With this mandate from members the IMO will now ratify the agreement with the State side. The IMO will actively monitor the implementation of this agreement and will be seeking an early meeting with the HSE with regard to the planned timeline for posts to be advertised in phase 1 of the agreement.
Key Terms of Agreement:
Dr Anne Dee, Chairperson of the IMO’s public health committee, said:
“This agreement is the culmination of a 20-year campaign to put Irish public health medicine on a par with the rest of the medical profession. We welcome the decision of our members to accept the agreement. We believe that it is a landmark agreement for the future of public health in Ireland and will bring the public health discipline here into line with other jurisdictions such as New Zealand, Australia, UK and Canada in having the role of consultant in public health medicine.”
Dr Dee continued: “All existing specialists in public health medicine will have the opportunity to apply for new posts and this agreement will support our efforts to recruit the next generation of public health doctors who will be relieved to see that Ireland will now respect their skillset in the same manner as other specialties and as other countries do.”
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