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Doctors at Connolly Hospital in Dublin face a long walk to their cars if they refuse to learn about washing their hands LEON FARRELL/PHOTOCALL IRELAND

Dirty doctors to lose parking privileges

Junior doctors at one Dublin hospital will lose their car parking spaces if they don’t attend hygiene classes.

JUNIOR DOCTORS at Blanchardstown’s Connolly Hospital could lose their parking spots if they don’t attend hygiene classes.

The Medical Independent reports that the punishments will be introduced on foot of concerns raised by senior microbiology medical staff about poor attendance levels at the sessions. The Health Information and Quality Authority also recently informed the hospital of its intention to carry out hygiene spot-checks.

It is understood the hospital will now issue new staff with a temporary parking permit, valid for only one month. Junior doctors will have to pay for parking after the month is up, at least until they finish their hand hygiene sessions.

Local health service managers at the same hospital were recently warned by the HSE that they will have to pay personally  if they exceed new budget targets for the recruiting of agency staff and overtime, according to the The Irish Times.

Read more by Ailbhe Jordan in The Medical Independent>

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    Mute Chrissy Beanz
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    Aug 11th 2011, 3:20 PM

    All they need to do is wash their hands ¬!!!!!!!!!

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    Mute Fergus Cafferty
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    Aug 11th 2011, 6:51 PM

    So the wards and theatres will be empty of doctors (already a skeleton staff) for an hour while they sit in a room to have some overpaid fuckwit show them how to wash their hands…is there any wonder foreign doctors are voting with their feet and avoiding Ireland as a place to work?

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    Mute jumpthecat
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    Aug 11th 2011, 7:09 PM

    The reason docs haven’t attended these classes is that they are run off there feet working like fools for 120 hours a week getting paid peanuts, doing the work of 3 doctors as the shite bucket that is the health system falls down around them. Unfortunately, unlike other unionised groups in the HSE the docs cannot take 2 hours off and disappear to sit in a room and listen to some hygienic nurse ‘specialist’ drone on about crap to justify her â

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    Aug 11th 2011, 4:52 PM

    They should be given warning for not washing there hands and if the get 3 warning they get suspended and if they continue to be dirty bast**ds they should be sacked. They should not get rewarded for being clean. That’s the bloody basic minimum that should be done. My god it not the dark ages.

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    Aug 11th 2011, 7:14 PM

    Also the title of this piece is appalling. There is no evidence to state that doctors are ‘dirty’ in the story in any way. Would the Journal be so brave to label special needs assistants or nurses with such a disgusting, unfair and unprofessional adjective?
    I thought the journal is above lazy tabloid garbage headlines.

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    Mute gareth byrne
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    Aug 11th 2011, 5:11 PM

    Jesus.only in Ireland would this happen.

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    Aug 11th 2011, 5:54 PM

    Had an operation on Monday and in the pre-theatre room there was a big sign stating that no food and drink should be taken into the room. I was surprised to see 4 takeaway coffee cups in a tray underneath it.

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    Aug 11th 2011, 7:19 PM

    Why was my first comment deleted?

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    Mute Brian O Connor
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    Aug 11th 2011, 11:22 PM

    Sorry? Doctors have to be threatened to make them wash? These are the same ungrateful fucktards that cost 150k to train and then piss off somewhere for more money leaving us with Romanians that can’t take a pulse!!!

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    Mute Fergus Cafferty
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    Aug 12th 2011, 12:16 AM

    Ah Brian, that’s the hse spin you’ve swallowed. Reality is that our health service is heavily dependant on foreign trained (usually 2nd/3rd world) doctors, as anybody who has ever been ill will have noticed. The uk has been asked by the W.H.O. to stop poaching nurses and doctors from poor countries who can barely afford to train them; we engage in an identical practice. But after years of been treated like shite, and nasty media attacks on doctors like this article,they are leaving, which is why there is now a staffing crisis… not because a few rookie Irish grads go travelling for experience after qualifying for 6-12 months!

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    Aug 12th 2011, 12:23 AM

    …and they haven’t been threatened to make them wash, they’ve been commanded to leave their patients, probably without adequate cover, in order to attend a patronising lecture on how to wash, get it right!

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