Reputational risk and damage to career prospects keeping doctors silent about working conditions

"Raising concerns about the HSE is like raising concerns about global warming," one intern is quoted as saying. Picture: Pexels

A quarter of hospital doctors say they wouldn't raise concerns about workplace conditions for reasons including a perceived risk to their reputations, a lack of time and energy, and a feeling that nothing would change in any case.

The finding is included in a new study in which the views of more than 1,000 hospital doctors were sought, with the authors claiming that it "highlights the systemic, cultural and practical issues that pressure hospital doctors in Ireland to opt for silence around working conditions".