Consultants in Ireland: time for decision.

As Britain's National Health Service passes into its 27th year and faces problems which threaten to destroy it the medical profession and, doubtless, the Department of Health in Ireland watch its malaise with concern and interest. Not by any means the least interested are the consultants, who, like their British colleagues, are studying contract options for the future, and many of whom with first-hand experience of working conditions in Britain's N.H.S. would not wish to see it duplicated in this island. Therefore the ultimate consultant contract in Ireland will probably differ substantially from that negotiated by British consultants.