Posts Tagged ‘ contracts ’

Irish Medical Consultants

Apr 22nd, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Favourites, Politics

There’s an almighty row going on at the moment about the contracts being offered to new hospital consultants.
An incredible uproar.
And the reason? Well, the government is going to hire more consultants, but they’ll have to work exclusively in the public health service. They won’t be able to have private patients under the new [...]



Tribunal Lawyers’ Fees (and Hospital Consultants)

Mar 28th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Bock rant, Scandal

So the lawyers aren’t going to suffer a crippling reduction in fees after all. What a relief.
It looked for a while as if they were going to be forced to manage on a measly €1000, but no. Common sense prevails and their fees remain at a richly-deserved €2500. Per day.
Now, I know [...]