Overtime and the health service

Current pressures

Sir, – I note the warm welcome from The Irish Times and other media outlets to doctors and nurses working on their days off to alleviate the current pressures in the hospitals.

I look forward to the outrage in your newspaper later on in the year when people are paid for working overtime far in excess of their rostered hours. – Is mise,

Prof ANTHONY O’CONNOR,

(Consultant

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Gastroenterologist,

Tallaght University Hospital

and Clinical Associate

Professor in

Gastroenterology,

Trinity College Dublin),

Dublin 24.