IHCA President Professor Alan Irvine: “By any standards this is a very disappointing performance. The Department of Health’s unit should be an imaginative solution-focussed hub and incubator for new ideas. This requires shared leadership and collaborative engagement with hospital consultants who provide the medical and surgical care and their representatives to ensure an improved public hospital service for the Irish people.”
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has today (Friday 14 May 2021) expressed its dismay as 883,727 people are now waiting for an appointment to be treated or seen by a hospital consultant, due to one in five permanent hospital consultant posts that are not being filled as needed.
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