HSE: D-day for contract talks
If agreement is not reached today, health service managers have threatened to unilaterally impose a revised contract and press ahead with recruitment of new consultants under revised terms.
In an effort to bring the four-year-plus saga to a close, the secretary-general of the Department of Health Michael Scanlan, and Health Service Executive chief executive Prof Brendan Drumm, will sit in on negotiations for the first time.
