# consultants - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Public Health
# Public Health
It’s understood that the IMO will recommend the agreement to their members.
# consultants - Sunday 14 March, 2021
# Consultants
# Consultants
One quarter had reported that either they or colleagues had experienced “long-Covid” after being infected.
# consultants - Wednesday 20 January, 2021
# Strike Action
# Strike Action
In a ballot in November, 94% of IMO’s public health doctors voted in favour of strike action.
# consultants - Friday 30 October, 2020
# Consultants
# Consultants
The IMO has backed plans by public health specialists to ballot for industrial action in a row over consultant contracts.
# consultants - Wednesday 12 August, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Many neonatal units have no isolation facilities to deal with coronavirus patients.
# consultants - Thursday 7 May, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Dr Gabrielle Colleran of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association says healthcare will have to take on a very different shape in the coming months.
# consultants - Monday 27 April, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Last month the government reached an agreement with private hospitals to use all of their facilities during the Covid-19 crisis.
# consultants - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
# Waiting Lists
# Waiting Lists
The IMO said its key demand is an end to the “unjustifiable pay inequality” faced by consultants.
# consultants - Thursday 7 November, 2019
# IMO
# IMO
“This vote emphasises the frustration and anger that consultants and NCHDs face.”
# consultants - Thursday 17 October, 2019
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
The IMO said it is setting a 21-day deadline for the receipt of serious proposals.
# consultants - Saturday 21 September, 2019
# Waiting Lists
# Waiting Lists
About one million patients in Ireland are on waiting lists to see a consultant.
# consultants - Tuesday 3 September, 2019
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
Consultants have said staffing and resource issues are impacting their mental health and compromising patient care.
# consultants - Monday 2 September, 2019
# Health Insurance
# Health Insurance
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said capacity issues need to be urgently addressed.
# consultants - Monday 26 August, 2019
# Future Health System
# Future Health System
A new report says all new consultants should move to a contract that will end private clinics in public hospitals.
# consultants - Friday 16 August, 2019
# Pay
# Pay
A government report found that Irish consultants have higher gross salaries than the UK or New Zealand.
# consultants - Friday 22 March, 2019
# SIPO
# SIPO
Sipo investigated the doctors after they missed a deadline by which they had to reply.
# consultants - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
# consultants - Friday 15 June, 2018
# 5 At 5
# 5 At 5
Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
# Breach Of Contracts
# Breach Of Contracts
Paschal Donohoe said “absolutely gigantic” amounts of money were involved in the case.
# consultants - Saturday 6 January, 2018
# Temple Street
# Temple Street
Temple Street says it currently has access to only one consultant cardiologist, with that consultant “only commissioned to one clinic per week”.
# consultants - Friday 8 December, 2017
# Irish Hospitals
# Irish Hospitals
Bully and sexual harassment remain common in Ireland’s medical workplaces, according to the IMO.
# consultants - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
# Public V Private
# Public V Private
His comments were in response to an RTÉ Investigates programme which revealed that one consultant left his work at a public hospital to treat private patients at a different hospital.
# consultants - Monday 18 September, 2017
# Zero Tolerance
# Zero Tolerance
Four of the five locum/agency doctors at the hospital’s emergency department went on wildcat strike two weeks ago in a row over plans to slash their rate of pay.
# consultants - Sunday 25 June, 2017
# Recruitment
# Recruitment
The figures came following a parliamentary question asked by Sinn Féin’s Louise O’Reilly.
# consultants - Monday 15 May, 2017
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Consultants say these doctors do not have the expertise necessary to make the right decisions for patients.
# consultants - Friday 21 April, 2017
# IMO
# IMO
The Irish Medical Organisation’s AGM is happening in Galway.
# consultants - Thursday 26 January, 2017
# Cough It Up
# Cough It Up
The consultants’ claims relate to the terms of a 2008 pay deal.
# consultants - Friday 13 January, 2017
# Water Charges
# Water Charges
Irish Water state the money was spent on experts that were needed to set up the utility.
# consultants - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
# Job Vacancy
# Job Vacancy
Professor Kevin Walsh, Consultant Cardiologist at the Mater Hospital has raised concerns about resources.
# consultants - Sunday 22 May, 2016
# Outside Help
# Outside Help
The area of Environment and Transportation accounted for more than half of the consultant fees paid out.
# consultants - Monday 29 September, 2014
# Inquest
# Inquest
Earlier today, the former Master of Holles St Hospital hit out at the lack of continuity of care at senior consultant level afforded to Dhara Kivlehan the week before her death.
# consultants - Friday 15 August, 2014
# Stand Down
# Stand Down
Ebola was suspected as one possibility for man suffering ‘flu-like’ symptoms but he has been cleared by medics.
# consultants - Saturday 26 July, 2014
# 9 At 9
# 9 At 9
It’s the weekend – and here’s everything that you need to know as you start your day.
# consultants - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
# Health
# Health
Ireland lags behind the US and most of western Europe in health spend to GDP ratio.
# consultants - Friday 25 April, 2014
# Doctor Doctor
# Doctor Doctor
The Irish Medical Organisation is also to discuss new rules to increase transparency for its members.
# consultants - Sunday 6 April, 2014
# Standoff
# Standoff
The hospital was asked by the HSE to stop 80 consultants on State salaries from working between both public and private hospitals on the campus.
# consultants - Saturday 22 March, 2014
# Tenders
# Tenders
Minister Rabbitte told the Dáil that his department was assisted in the tender process by a consulting firm.
# consultants - Tuesday 11 February, 2014
# Health System
# Health System
The IMO said this evening that there has been nothing but “disincentives and obstacles” put in the way of highly skilled doctors.
# consultants - Wednesday 15 January, 2014
# Consultancy
# Consultancy
The Minister for Finance likened the consultants to painters, saying they were only used when needed.
# Big Philly Style
# Big Philly Style
The Environment Minister has been called on to resign by Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams today.
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