Pay for new consultants may rise after failure to fill key posts

Health Minister James Reilly and the HSE are considering paying newly appointed hospital consultants more money because of the failure to fill key posts.

Last October, the president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, Denis Evoy, warned that the continued “degradation” of consultants’ working conditions and contracts was resulting in a system that could not cater for patients.

Over the weekend, it was reported that there had been no applications in relation to four recruitment campaigns last year for posts in paediatric intensive care medicine, geriatric medicine, and radiology.