Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion

3:55 pm

Ms Laverne McGuinness:

That is what is required by 31 March. That is what we have said has to be achieved by 31 March. In order to put that in place there was some discussion about unrostered overtime. Some of our hospitals have issued instructions that unrostered overtime must be completed on a separate form. The reason is that it is not sufficient for a doctor to say that he or she did unrostered overtime because the hospital was busy. More specifics are required. In fact, clinical directors are engaging with non-consultant hospital doctors ensure that once their rostered work is finished they go home, unless an emergency requires them to be there, such as a cardiac arrest.

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