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Cost is the reason that consultants don't read X-rays

Sunday March 14 2010

Sometimes you think the health service can't get any worse -- and then sadly it does.

Managers ignored warnings over X-rays

Thursday March 11 2010

SENIOR executives at the hospital at the centre of the X-ray scandal ignored repeated demands for answers from a patient safety watchdog for almost a year.

Quarter of all consultants in breach of new contract deals

Friday February 12 2010

AROUND 400 consultants are breaching their contractual obligations to treat a certain percentage of public patients.

Consultants 'not sticking to public patients deal'

Monday December 14 2009

URGENT attention is needed to tackle the low numbers of public patients being treated by consultants in two of the worst-performing hospitals in the country, an HSE report has said.

Consultants ready to accept pay cut if contract deal is implemented fully Three killed in separate road accidents 'X Factor' dream is over for Stacey One winner in €4m Lotto jackpot Talk of Irish exit from euro dismissed Man questioned over death of toddler Minister won't be attending hunt rally Police attacked by mob on estate Appeal for help to find missing girl High Court judge leaves €3.9m estate

Sunday December 13 2009

Irish hospital consultants said yesterday they are prepared to accept the 15 per cent pay cut announced in the Budget. However, agreement is based on the full implementation of the consultants' contract, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association said.

Consultants 'singled out for harsher wage cuts'

Friday December 11 2009

HOSPITAL consultants who have seen their pay cut by 30pc in a year claim they have been "singled out.

Cutting doctors’ pay can cure ills

Monday October 05 2009

I FIND it a bit rich of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association to say that "sick people must come before sick banks" and that frontline hospital services are at "breaking point".

The €133m cost of almost 300,000 health blunders

Monday October 05 2009

MORE than 282,000 incidents involving mistakes or near-misses in hospitals and other health care settings have been confidentially reported in the last five-and-a-half years.

Doctor claims intensive care at hospital is a risk to children

Monday October 05 2009

AN INTENSIVE care unit at a children's hospital poses a "risk to patient safety" and needs replacing with a more modern facility, a leading doctor has claimed.

VHI hopes to slash costs by €15m with 5pc doctors' fee cut

Wednesday July 01 2009

HOSPITAL consultants who earned an average of €127,000 each in private fees from VHI last year -- on top of generous public salaries -- are to have their fees cut by 5pc by the insurer from today.