Board members at the Rotunda Hospital are continuing to refuse a Government order to stop public-only consultants caring for private patients.<\/p>\n
The dispute could result in HSE funding for the hospital being withdrawn.<\/p>\n
The board of the maternity hospital held a general meeting on Friday and says it has requested a meeting with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to explain the rationale behind its decision.<\/p>\n
Dr. Peter Boylan, former master of the National Maternity Hospital, says public patients often benefit from the availability of consultants who also care for private patients.<\/p>\n
“Now the problem with only having public consultants on a public-only contract is when they are off call, they are off call. They are not available.<\/p>\n
“When you have a cohort of consultants for our private patients, they are also available for public patients in case of emergency.<\/p>\n
The number of consultant obstetricians on public-only contracts at the Rotunda is small, with just one doctor delivering two private patient babies under this model between January and March of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Board members at the Rotunda Hospital are continuing to refuse a Government order to stop public-only consultants caring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-486378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}