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04/09/2013
HSE And IMO Meet Over Contingency Care Plan
The Health Service Executive will meet representatives of the Irish Medical Organisation today to put in place a contingency care plan after junior doctors voted in favour of industrial action.
Non-consultant hospital doctors voted for the action in a dispute over working hours, in which they have called on the HSE to implement an EU directive restricting their working hours to no more then 48 per week. The doctors claim that many junior doctors regular work upwards of 100 hours a week.
Following the strike and a meeting on Tuesday, the doctors, represented by the IMO, announced a one-day national strike on September 25, followed by rolling action each week at one hospital in each region.
The IMO has insisted that emergency care will not be affected by the industrial action.
(MH/CD)
Non-consultant hospital doctors voted for the action in a dispute over working hours, in which they have called on the HSE to implement an EU directive restricting their working hours to no more then 48 per week. The doctors claim that many junior doctors regular work upwards of 100 hours a week.
Following the strike and a meeting on Tuesday, the doctors, represented by the IMO, announced a one-day national strike on September 25, followed by rolling action each week at one hospital in each region.
The IMO has insisted that emergency care will not be affected by the industrial action.
(MH/CD)
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