Consultants' contract plans stall after resignation of key figure

Former chair for State contract negotiations with medical consultants Marguerite Bolger left to take up a judiciary position in December. Picture: Maxwells

Four months on from the resignation of the chair for State contract negotiations with medical consultants, the Department of Health has declined to say whether she will be replaced.

Uncertainty around consultants’ working conditions has been blamed as one reason for the inability of the health services to recruit in sufficient numbers to tackle rising waiting lists.