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...
View ArticleCriticism 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...
View ArticleStaff 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...
View ArticleCork 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...
View ArticleJunior 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...
View ArticleShaun 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...
View ArticleMedics 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...
View ArticleHundreds 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...
View ArticleDublin 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...
View ArticleHSE 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleClampdown 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...
View ArticleGPs 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...
View ArticleExtra 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...
View ArticleRevelations 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...
View ArticleMaster 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...
View ArticleHealth 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...
View ArticlePay 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...
View ArticleCrumlin 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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