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ONE IN FIVE women non-consultant hospital doctors claim they have been sexually harassed in their workplace in the past two years, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has said.
In its new report, the organisation has said that 27.7% of women non-consultant hospital doctors, 13.2% of female consultants, 10.4% of GPs and 5% of community health and public health doctors reported being bullied on the basis of their gender during the last two years.
Meanwhile, 21% of female non-consultant hospital doctors reported being sexually harassed in the workplace in the same period.
“The HSE is perceived to be a toxic employer – a damning indictment of a body that is meant to facilitate the delivery of healthcare in Ireland… and the current policies of the HSE surrounding recruitment and retention of doctors in Ireland are failing,” Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital said.
The report said that bullying, harassment and sexual harassment appear to remain common features of medical practice in Ireland, despite efforts to curtail their impact and prevalence.
Recruitment and emigration
The IMO said that pay levels were one of the main issues relating to the emigration of young doctors.
It said that 66.2% of non-consultant hospital doctors perceive pay to be a primary reason for the emigration of their peers from Ireland. 82.3% of the doctors believe their pay would be increased by moving abroad.
Additionally, 58.4% of non-consultant hospital doctors had been approached by an agency or employer seeking to recruit them to a medical post in another jurisdiction.
The report noted a growing problem in recruiting doctors and consultants to Ireland’s health system.
Based on information provided to the IMO by the Hanly Report, taking the population of Ireland into account the Irish health service should employ around 4,400 consultants.
However, at the moment only around 3,000 consultant posts have been approved, while just 2,427 have been permanently filled.
The report said: “The increasing need for reliance on foreign-trained doctors, despite the training of more than adequate numbers of doctors in Ireland to fulfil all medical posts in the Irish health system is the more clear symptom of the deep unattractiveness with which the Irish health system is viewed by doctors trained in this country.”
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Council think it will have no negative impact?
They’ve clearly not lived near students who love to party. Especially not fun when you have to be up for work!
@Barry: There article said that antisocial behaviour was out of the scope of a planning application. The ‘no negative effect’ was in relation to the building, not the occupants.
@Barry: they actually come down hard on having parties within Trinity Hall, previously you were allowed one over-nihht guest who had to be signed in prior to 11PM and couldn’t re-enter after that, prior to 11 it was 3 guests who had to be gone by 11, at least those were the rules a few years ago.
Hence, parties on site aren’t the issue, coming and going to off-site parties could be an issue however
Have rent caps been considered in terms of this development. University rents are notoriously overpriced fuelling rent increases in the general rental market.
@Chris O’Connor: Trinity only made a net profit of circa 10 million on student accommodation in 2018, so little chance they will support your view
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/why-should-students-living-at-home-subsidise-those-living-in-campus-accommodation-1.4183312
No different to Temple Bar at weekends prior to Covid…. Smell of urine and vomit overpowering, empty cans and bottles, discarded food containers…. You know… The usual… But that was acceptable because the Pubs were creaming it. Now the ball is in a different court…..
Delighted. Temple road is still one of the quietest streets in Dublin. Plenty of room in the area. Students are largely very respectful in my experience.
Trinity should be ashamed of themselves being associated with this disaster of planning
No argument that the vast majority of students are respectful of local residents, but it only takes a few to cause mayhem. The college needs to take a no-tolerance approach to antisocial behaviour. One strike and your out and no return of deposit which should be donated to the local residents association. When mumsy and pop have to fork out a second time I’m sure the ground rules would be explained more forcefully.
Gasly shower of individual’s.
@Peter Bell: You’re not a Trinity graduate yourself?
@Peter Bell: It is usually the ghastly old fart’s who are gasly, especially those who use an apostrophe in a plural word.
The story had significantly less to do with UTIs than the headline may have led one to expect….
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