Harney makes stand on ‘inappropriate’ consultants’ fees in A&E

EMERGENCY medicine consultants should not be charging private fees to patients attending accident and emergency departments in public hospitals, Health Minister Mary Harney insisted yesterday.

Harney makes stand on ‘inappropriate’ consultants’ fees in A&E

A spokesperson for the minister said she was absolutely firm in her view that it was “entirely inappropriate” for consultant fees to be charged in A&E.

“People treated in A&E must be treated solely on the basis of medical need without even the suggestion — even if theoretical — that their status as private or public patients would influence their care,” he said.

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