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MORE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS at small hospitals will be forced to close if the HSE does not reverse its ban on agency doctors, a group of medics has warned.
The warning comes just one month after Roscommon Hospital’s emergency department was shut down amid a storm of protest.
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has called for emergency departments to be excluded from the new hiring freeze, which is set to take effect from August 15. It said that currently almost a third of senior doctor posts in emergency departments are vacant, and 15 per cent of more junior SHO positions.
“Some smaller EDs [emergency departments] will either close or have restricted hours of opening” unless agency staff can be brought in as cover, the association said in a statement. At others, it added, “there will be unacceptably long delays in patients accessing care due to doctor shortages. The ultimate outcome of these scenarios will be to put patients at increased risk.”
The HSE is currently conducting a recruitment drive in India and Pakistan in the hope of filling vacancies. However, the IAEM said these doctors will not be eligible to work in smaller regional emergency departments, where there is no full-time supervision.
Hundreds of people turned out to protest last month over the closure of the emergency department at Roscommon Hospital. Two weeks ago, the HSE sent a letter to its regional directors highlighting a 32 per cent growth in spending on agency doctors in just five months and ordering their employment to cease from August 15.
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So why does Knock still charge passengers €12?
Airports are allowed charge a levy of their own, usually in order to fund expansion or renovation.
Holy water in the toilets?
A Development Fee of €10 is charged to all departing passengers from Ireland West Airport Knock aged 12 years and over. This is a service charge which the Airport charges for the use of its facilities and as a contribution toward infrastructure developments amount other services, usually It is included in the “Taxes and Charges” http://www.irelandwestairport.com/airportguide/airportdevelopmentfee.aspx
Perhaps they should be prohibited from charging a levy of their own. A level playing field in light of this ruling would benefit everyone.
In fairness, €12 is a bargain to get out of knock.
I’d pay €100 to get out of the kip
To fund the once-off Aer Lingus direct flight of Pilgrims from New York this summer? That flight can’t be cheap for anybody concerned!
For the holyness , sure dont u no the water in knock
Cured fr.jack himself
Good god…i hope its not becAuse off the holy water
It’s really not like our government to have 1 Fook up after another…
It was actually FF who messed up and FG changed to a flat rate before scrapping it.
Not to mention the European Commission’s lazy ruling.
And how much did the FG government spend on fees before losing this case.
I mean, it’s not as though FG are doing anything different from FF, is it?
If Michael O’Leary got into politics, this would be a different country. He would sort out the lot of them up there trying to bleed the country dry
Yes and maybe we would be working for his low pay way of life too.
On the contrary, it’s people who think that running a country is like running a business that have damaged this country the most in recent years.
So I assume aer lingus and Ryanair will refund me the tax I paid to them that they never passed on.. I also assume I will have to go through the small claims court to get the money back as I have travel 39 + times … ching ching
Ryanair comparable *family friendly*flights cost double that of June 2013 prices when the tax was included to flights . ryanair are ripping off ppl and now have saved 12 million from tax payers . Michael o Leary propaganda using his family to make money family friendly my a** . MoL only believes in profit. He should donate that money to #jakeslegacy and make a difference
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