Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion
10:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
That is a fair assessment. Going specifically to the productivity place, the next natural step for us is to further advance the move from what we call the five over seven week to getting six over seven, perhaps. To be fair to the unions, it is a big one to grapple with. If there is a long delay in that, the benefit of the public-only consultant contract will not be fully realised. There are many people around consultants other than consultants themselves who need to be part of that working system. The healthcare system needs to operate on Saturday the way it operates on Friday.
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