Statement from the IHCA on the Consultant Recruitment and Retention Crisis.
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has said that it welcomes the confirmation in the Public Service Pay Commission Report of the significant crisis in the recruitment and retention of hospital consultants.
The President of the Association, Dr Donal O’Hanlon, said that the “crisis needs to be urgently addressed in order to provide timely and quality care to patients and to resolve the difficulties arising from the failure to fill a significant proportion of consultant posts. The IHCA will be pressing that a resolution of the crisis is immediately put in place given the large number of vacant public hospital posts throughout the acute hospital system. The extreme level of salary discrimination against new entrant consultants is the root cause of the crisis and must be ended without delay.”
ENDS
James Dunny
Director | EMEA Crisis & Issues Lead
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