The HSE has said it wants to avoid a “substantial impact” of overcrowding on hospitals.
IN RECENT DAYS, healthcare workers have been pleaded with by HSE bosses to volunteer to work weekends ahead of the June bank holiday.
The Business Post reported on Wednesday that Gloster told the Oireachtas Health Committee that he is to writing to all hospital staff to request they volunteer for a seven-day working roster to reduce overcrowding to reduce overcrowding in Emergency Departmnents for the June bank holiday weekend. Gloster told the Oireachtas committee that he did not want to “demonise” hospital consultants because they needed support staff.
In a statement on 8 May, Professor Matthew Sadlier, the Irish Medical Organisation’s chairperson of the Consultant Committee, said doctors, including consultants, are already providing seven-day services through on-call rosters to deal with urgent patient need. “It is not simply a matter of coming in on a Saturday and discharging patients; patients can only be discharged when there are safe and appropriate pathways for them to transfer to,” he added.
He said staff were being asked to volunteer for the weekend shift in return for overtime payments or days in lieu.Extra.ie reported that the letter to staff, also signed by Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry and Chief Operations Officer Damien McCallion, said hospital bosses had been authorised to engage directly with a range of staff members, in a bid to “reduce the risk patients experience in emergency departments through delays after triage or in waiting for admission”.
Similar to the comments made by Sadlier about consultants providing weekend on-call services, Extra.ie reported that trade union Siptu’s sector organiser John McCamley said radiographers provided a seven-day service in every location. She told Morning Ireland that the level of detail required hasn’t been provided to trade unions about requests to work the June bank holiday weekend.
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