Stephen Donnelly’s in high-stakes move to unwind medics’ stranglehold on health service

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Emergency changes to rosters at weekends have been shown to reduce hospital trolley numbers but HSE chief Bernard Gloster and health minister Stephen Donnelly can expect stiff resistance in their bid to introduce weekend work on a permanent basis

As the number of people on hospital trolleys reached a new record of 991 in early January, Stephen Donnelly called the senior executive team of the HSE to the Department of Health for an emergency

meeting to address serious overcrowding.Donnelly told the executives that not only would they need to roster consultants and health staff over weekends to relieve acute overcrowding, but they would ...

 

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