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Angry doctors launch campaign to oust union head and probe finances

A group of members are collecting signatures to force an EGM at which they will seek to remove interim chief executive Niall Saul and seize control of an independent investigation into financial and...

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Criticism of European Commission statement that Irish medical consultants are...

It seems a few arithmetic lessons wouldn’t go astray, given that the average public salary of a consultant in the UK in 2011 as estimated by the NHS information centre was circa €136,305 (£116,900) not...

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Staff in Reilly special unit exempted from pay cuts

Highly paid contractors working for the special delivery unit established by Minister for Health James Reilly are to be exempt from pay cuts to be introduced under the proposed new Croke Park...

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Cork University Hospital threatens to withhold overtime

A Cork hospital where overtime payments to junior doctors are in the order of €1m a month has warned it will not pay unrostered overtime unless specific details of extra hours worked are outlined. A...

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Junior doctor paid €167,000 in overtime

Overtime payments totalling €167,000 to a junior doctor in a hospital in the southeast “shouldn’t have happened”, according to the Health Service Executive. HSE chief operating officer Laverne...

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Shaun McCann on cost of health service

If the health service is so costly because of the salaries of its employees, then why are so many doctors leaving the country after internship? The answer is that they receive better remuneration and...

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Medics in Ireland are lowest-paid in English-speaking world, IMO told

Medical specialists in Ireland are now the lowest-paid within the English-speaking world, the president of the Irish Medical Organisation has said. In his presidential address to the organisation’s...

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Hundreds of nurses left out of pocket by staff shortage

400 of the 800-strong nursing staff at the Mid-Western regional hospital in Limerick will not receive their fortnightly allowances, including overtime and shift work, because of a staff shortage. The...

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Dublin doctor earned over €700,000 from HSE for treating medical-card patients

Dr Andrew Jordan, who runs practices in Tallaght and Terenure, was paid €729,485 for seeing medical and GP card patients and in practice supports in 2011, according to the HSE. Dr Jordan also topped...

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HSE confirms that 70 nurses earned over €100,000 last year

On the numbers receiving significant overtime payments, the HSE confirmed that five received payments of between €60,001 to €70,000; 12 received overtime payments between €50,001 to €60,000; 22...

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New hospital group chief executives to be paid €136,000 under new official rules

The heads of the new groups of hospitals to be established around the Republic should be paid €136,282, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has determined. Under health reform plans...

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Will a strike help cure doctors’ long hours and low pay?

You have to go back almost 30 years to find the last major industrial action by doctors in the health service and, ironically, their success in that strike has partially contributed to the current...

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Clampdown on top-up payments for voluntary hospital chiefs

The Government has ordered a clampdown on top-up payments to senior management in State-funded voluntary hospitals and health service agencies above the official salaries. In a new circular issued on...

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GPs asked to take ‘haircut’ on out-of-hours payments

The HSE withheld payment on almost 63,000 claims by family doctors for out-of-hours work after identifying claiming patterns of concern, it says. The review was carried out as part of routine probity...

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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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Revelations over executive pay will rankle in wake of cuts to supports

At a time of savage cutbacks to disability services, disclosures over the scale of pay for senior managers in voluntary bodies will rankle most of all with families of children who have lost vital...

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Master of Holles Street gets €45k top-up to her €236k salary

Dr Mahony, master of the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, is one of four senior staff in the publicly funded institution who are getting the board-approved allowances of at least €30,000...

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Health bodies breach policy with €200,000 packages

One in four of the country’s 43 State-funded voluntary hospitals and health agencies have told the Government they are breaching official policy on pay for senior executives. Figures released by the...

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Pay deal approved so hospital chief would not lose top-up

Ministers approved a special annual pay deal of €195,000 two years ago to facilitate the transfer of a senior executive in the voluntary hospital sector into the mainstream HSE so he would not lose out...

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Crumlin and Rotunda fundraising bodies say no money is spent on executive...

The fundraising bodies attached to Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin and the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin have moved to reassure the public that none of the money they raise goes in...

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