Doctors’ union president Matthew Sadlier says the organisation will emerge from the controversy over the pay and pension package of its former chief executive with a more robust set of rules and regulations.

The Irish Medical Organisation last night said presidents of the organisation were unaware of how their annual allowance was calculated.

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A GP has called for full disclosure to revelations that his representative union, the Irish Medical Organisation, paid for the use of a private jet for its former chief executive.

An external company is to carry out a review of George McNeice’s tenure as chief executive of the Irish Medical Organisation.

The Irish Medical Organisation are to review the almost €10m settlement to their former chief executive, George McNeice.

A war of words has broken out between the Irish Medical Organisation and some of its members over how the union will examine concerns about its ex-CEO’s €9.7m retirement package.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has written to members outlining the legal reasons it says are behind its decision to reject a request from disenchanted doctors for an extraordinary general meeting.

The Irish Medical Organisation will hold an extraordinary general meeting in the coming weeks after a south Dublin GP gathered 120 signatures from other members to trigger the move.

The Irish Medical Organisation is considering reducing membership fees in an effort to contain the fallout from the row over a €10m pension package paid to its outgoing chief.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has axed the committee that signed off on a gold-plated deal that could have cost the union €25m once its chief executive retired.

Just how much Health Minister James Reilly knew of the deal behind a potential €25m pension pot for a union chief will form part of a review into the controversy.

A meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation, the doctor’s trade union, was held in Mullingar at the weekend to discuss the deal that it struck with its chief executive, George McNeice.

Hundreds of doctors are expected next weekend to express their anger at a €10m pension payout to their union’s outgoing chief executive.

The Irish Medical Organisation has warned general practice trainees may cease out-of-hours work if a ballot on industrial action is approved.

Health Minister James Reilly has been lambasted by the head of the Irish Medical Organisation for presiding over a reform “farce” that even “Flann O’Brien couldn’t have conceived”.

Health Minister James Reilly’s two key health service reforms are facing their first major hurdle after plans for a new hospital doctor grade and free GP care hit a significant union roadblock.

THE recruitment ban in the health service was yesterday described as one of the most short-sighted decisions ever taken by the HSE.

DOCTORS have reported more than 250 complaints in recent weeks detailing how the Health Service Executive (HSE) recruitment embargo and budget cuts have hit the delivery of services and patient care.

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

THE Government is to press ahead with plans to fortify flour with folic acid to combat failure by women to take the vital vitamin when planning pregnancy.

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.

The Irish Medical Organisation has said short-term measures as well as a far-sighted strategy are needed to improve Ireland’s health service.

The Irish Medical Organisation has warned hospitals at its annual conference in Killarney that it will meet them "head on" in a row over junior doctors' pay and conditions.