Louise O'Reilly
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191 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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As you see with the Domino midwife programme is a really good example of that.
Women will often opt for midwife led care rather than consultant led care.
But what they want at the end of the day and what anyone wants at the end of the day, they want continuity.
They want to know that they're getting the best and the highest standard of care.
Okay, so is she right or wrong to take this row with the redundant, to push this?
Oh no, the contract was signed, so the contract should be enforced.
There's absolutely no dispute in that.
But that row is one that could be replicated in other areas.
This is not all about, you know, one or two consultants working in maternity.
There needs to be a root and branch examination.
And where someone has signed a public contract, they need to live up to the terms of that public contract.
But we also have to be honest when we have a conversation about if a consultant is working on a Saturday, or a nurse, or a journalist, or a politician...
If they're rostered to work for 40 hours a week and they're working on a Saturday, that's grand.
But somebody has to be covering the hours that they would normally work Monday through Friday.
So you're only going to get 40 hours or whatever the hours it is you're getting out of the consultant for their contract.
That's all you're getting.
So if you want more work done, you're going to need more people to do it.
And there's two ways of doing that.
One, you can recruit more consultants and we absolutely need to do that.
But you can also look at the model of care and look where innovation is being done.
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