Compensation awarded to a number of SouthDoc staff on foot of a pay cut will not now be paid after the GP co-op successfully appealed the award.

Doctors refused to invest in SouthDoc, an out-of-hours service involving around 500 GPs, despite claims that it was financially “on its knees”, an employment appeals tribunal (EAT) has heard.

A GP co-op that provides a vital out-of-hours service to more than 600,000 people faces closure if employees pursue a pay claim, the company has warned.

OUR organisation wishes to publicly disassociate itself with the comments of David Begg, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, who condemns the anti-bin tax protestors in Dublin.