Dr Peter Boylan

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The Pat Kenny Show · Dispute between Rotunda Hospital and HSE escalates over public consultants contracts. · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

But first, yesterday, board members of the Rotunda Hospital defied the health minister by refusing to accept a government order to halt public-only consultants caring for private patients.

This dispute could see HSE funding for the Rotunda withdrawn.

Now, joining me to talk about all of this is Dr Peter Boylan, former master of the National Maternity Hospital at Hollis Street and former chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Peter, good morning.

Good morning, Pat.

What do you make of this unseemly row?

Now, many women, professional women and other women, will have private health insurance, whether it's supplied by their employer at a discount or whatever, or whether they scrimp and save to pay for it themselves in order to secure private health care.

Now, in a normal situation, if you've got something that might help you jump the queue, you've got a gallbladder operation, it's not urgent, but you can have it now if you're private.

You might have to wait if you're public.

Babies don't wait.

They arrive when they arrive.

So people might question the need for any private health care because you're going to be seen if you're pregnant and about to deliver.

You will be seen.

So just to clarify, you're saying that...

Patient A is having an emergency.

Patient A is not going private, but is a public patient.

Meantime, the on-duty public consultant is busy with another emergency, maybe an abruption or something like that, that really demands instant attention.

And you're saying there may be no one to look after patient A who's not insured privately, but a private consultant will make him or herself available to cope with that emergency.

Yeah.

Do you see with the full development of Sláinte Care that instead of having people only on public contracts with one on duty, that there would be that kind of flexibility for a whole pile of public consultants eventually when Sláinte Care is fully developed?

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