Junior doctors have claimed strong public support for their strike over working hours.

The Irish Medical Organisation says a strike by junior doctors can be avoided if the HSE is willing to negotiate over working hours.

Doctors have voted to strike over what they have branded dangerous working hours.

A doctors’ union says the HSE only has itself to blame for its €105m deficit because it failed to implement already agreed cost- saving measures potentially worth hundreds of millions of euro.

Junior doctors could embark on all out strike action if the Government does not reduce their working hours.

Junior doctors are threatening to strike if the Government doesn't move to reduce their working hours.

Hospital doctors are considering industrial action over the HSE’s failure to introduce a maximum limit of 24 hours for on-call periods.

A group of Asian doctors, enticed to Ireland as part of a high-profile and expensive recruitment campaign, is suing the HSE, the Department of Health, and the Medical Council for unlawful treatment.

Junior doctors who have threatened to ballot for industrial action at a Cork hospital say they are owed unrostered overtime payments stretching back six months.

The treatment of young doctors by the HSE is causing an escalating crisis, writes Colm Burke

The issue of overworked junior doctors is again coming under the spotlight, as the latest batch of NCHD's complete their first fortnight in their new jobs.

One junior doctor in the HSE last year received more than €150,000 in overtime payments.

A LEADING medic has warned that Department of Health plans to tackle junior doctors’ excessive hours may never be implemented due to staff cuts and a 15-year failure to address the issue.

A REVIEW of theatre consent forms at the country’s largest hospital found that only 5% contained a record of the specific risks involved.

THE Medical Council has drawn up a protocol designed to avoid the kind of administrative mess that has left about 85 junior doctors jobless more than two months after travelling here from India and Pakistan.

JUNIOR doctors at the country’s largest hospital are the latest casualties of frenetic efforts by the HSE to generate €300 million in savings at a time when health chiefs have warned they could run out of cash.

A&E departments in smaller hospitals face a shortage of junior doctors as 158 posts remain unfilled, the head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) warned.

THE HSE received more than 3,000 applications for its early retirement and voluntary redundancy schemes by 5pm last evening.

A CRISIS is looming in the Irish health system due to an impending reduction of non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs).

Doctors’ representatives today demanded health chiefs reverse planned slashes in payments and allowances to young medics.

AFTER successfully disrupting Government agencies and departments yesterday, lower paid civil servants are to begin a campaign of locally based work protests on March 9.

Solutions proposed by doctors to tackle the problems plaguing the health service continue to be ignored by the Government, it was claimed today.

UP to 17% of tasks carried out by junior doctors involve “finding stuff and paperwork” and 15% are either non-medical or could be done by a less-skilled hospital worker, a survey has found.

PREGNANT obstetrics trainees are working straight 12-hour shifts into the final weeks of their pregnancy while advising their patients to stay home and rest.

PLANS to reduce junior doctor working hours and change the way consultants serve public hospitals have hit a major hurdle — just days after a blueprint for health service reform was published.

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S newest health reform plan was fighting for its life last night after doctors and opposition parties declared major elements of it unrealistic and unworkable.

Neans McSweeney

THE dispute at Waterford Regional Hospital deepened yesterday as doctors slammed management for failing to enter into meaningful talks on rostering.

THE hurling season may be drawing to a close but there’s still one man perfecting his hurler-on-the-ditch routine.

THE GOVERNMENT last night said it will not intervene in a junior doctors’ dispute which threatens up to 450 planned operations as well as 1,000 outpatient appointments in two hospitals this week.

DOCTOR John Kelleher and his 129 junior doctor colleagues at Waterford Regional Hospital are losing a minimum 100 in pay for every day they are on the picket line.

PATIENT services at a 500-bed regional hospital will be disrupted again today as junior doctors take to the picket line for a second day.

HOSPITAL services nationwide face a threat of industrial action and disruption because of a dispute involving the country’s 3,500 junior or non-consultant hospital doctors.

DOCTORS last night warned that patients on waiting lists will have their operations deferred if a series of one-day strikes are rolled out nationally next month.

HOSPITAL services around the country could be crippled by industrial action within weeks as a nationwide ballot of junior doctors begins this week.

JUNIOR doctors at one of the south east's busiest hospitals will begin a work-to-rule from tomorrow evening.

JUNIOR doctors are threatening to go on strike in protest at being included on senior staff work rosters.