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Article: A&E doctors to reject new '240,000 deal on issue of overcrowding.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2008
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A&E doctors to reject new '240,000 deal on issue of overcrowding
Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent
THE country's senior A&E doctors are set to reject the new consultants' '240,000 work contract -- dealing a major blow to hopes to reform hospital emergency services.
In a strongly-worded letter to their union, the consultants accused their employers in the Health Services Executive of using them as "window dressing" without tackling the underlying problems of overcrowding, the Irish Independent has learned.
Balloting is under way this week on the new contract, which would see the country's 1,300 specialists paid up to '240,000 to work a longer working week, ...