Junior doctor earns €200,000 in overtime

ONE junior doctor based in the mid-west received a staggering €200,000 in overtime payments last year – four times the average salary of a registrar.

The figures, released through the Freedom of Information Act, also show that the top 10 recipients amongst junior doctors in the mid-west region received an aggregate amount of more than €1 million in overtime last year.

The figures also show that the junior doctor who received the second highest amount of overtime last year received €132,105.