You can use your existing Medical Independent, MediLearning or PharmacistCPD account to log in.
Established in 2010, along with its sister publication The Medical Independent, our stated aim is to investigate and analyse the major issues affecting healthcare and the medical profession in Ireland. The Medical Independent has won a number of awards for its investigative journalism, and its stories are frequently picked up by national digital, broadcast and print media. The Medical Independent is published by GreenCross Publishing.
Address: Top Floor, 111 Rathmines Road Lr, Dublin 6
Tel: 353 (01) 441 0024
GreenCross Publishing is owned by Graham Cooke.
Sign up now for ease of access to The Medical Independent, Ireland’s most frequently published medical newspaper, delivering award-winning news and investigative reporting.
You are reading 1 of 2 free-access articles allowed for 30 days
The IMO has called for the immediate publication of a “comprehensive risk assessment” which has been undertaken on the Urgent Care Centre due to open in Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown next week.
The Urgent Care Centre is being opened as part of the broader rollout of the new National Children’s Hospital.
“The IMO fully supports the development of enhanced services for children; however, we have very serious concerns regarding the scheduled opening of the Urgent Care Centre in Connolly Hospital on 31 July,” said former IMO President and current member of the union’s consultant committee Dr Peadar Gilligan.
“We are now just days away from the scheduled opening, yet we have still to see a detailed and up-to-date risk assessment to confirm that the center is fit to operate – even on the restricted basis that the Children’s Hospital Group has admitted will be necessary.”
Dr Gilligan claimed the HSE was finding it “impossible” to recruit sufficient consultants to operate the new services for children in the light of “discrimination by government against all consultants appointed since 2012.”
“When he was Minister for Health, our current Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD insisted that the pay issue should be dealt with and agreed to the basic right of equal pay for equal work,” said Dr Gilligan.
“The current Minister for Health Simon Harris TD also committed in April of this year to begin a process to address the issue, yet nothing has been done.
“The cost of the Children’s Hospital has consumed the political system, yet no effort has been made to address how the satellite centers and the hospital are going to be staffed or how care is going to be delivered.”
“Since 2012, we have simply not been able to attract doctors to our health service and, at the same time, our newly qualified doctors are leaving Ireland to work abroad in health systems where no discrimination exists.”
The President of the Medical Council has called on doctors to avail of training opportunities to...
The average age of individuals with a confirmed case of Covid-19 in Ireland from 4 June to...
Dr Vincent Maher, Consultant Cardiologist, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, told delegates that there could be up to...
An update to the Covid-19 vaccination programme as a result of the threat posed by the...
There is “no central collation” of data on Covid-19 staff derogations during the pandemic in either...
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.