Consultant contract on its own will not solve CAMHS issues, says Professor Matthew Sadlier
“I know the Department thinks the terms and conditions are better than previous one,” he said. “We have consulted our members since the final document was produced, we’ve had a mixed response – a lot of people have raised concerns about the location aspect of this contracts, the extended working hours of this contract. We’re currently running a ballot of our members – so we’re waiting for the results to come back.
“If you look at what we’ve done with cancer care in this country, which is spectacular, we’ve had great success and that was based on a system of centres of excellence,” he said.
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