Charter to improve junior doctors’ conditions at Cork University Hospital

Ireland’s largest teaching hospital has unveiled a groundbreaking charter for trainee doctors to improve their learning and working conditions.

Charter to improve junior doctors’ conditions at Cork University Hospital

The document, launched yesterday by Tony McNamara, the chief executive of the Cork University Hospital (CUH) Group, is believed to be the first of its kind developed by an Irish hospital.

He described it as a significant statement from the 800-bed CUH, where some 340 doctors from all over the world are in training, to address a “rather ambivalent attitude” historically towards junior doctors.

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