Medical Council

MrCreosote

Anybody have anything good to say about the medical council?
Trying to reregister for returning to Ireland. The prices are ridiculous- 585 euro for "document examination"?? They have them all already! 585 to look at one cert of good standing?
Hopeless website- way too heavy on the management speech.
You can only register from May on for the year July-June only?? What a joke.

It's not like we have a choice either...
Sorry- just needed to get that off my chest!

RobFowl

MrCreosote wrote: »

Anybody have anything good to say about the medical council?

Not me bunch of incompetent money grabbing self justifying wasters .

drzhivago

MrCreosote wrote: »

Anybody have anything good to say about the medical council?
Trying to reregister for returning to Ireland. The prices are ridiculous- 585 euro for "document examination"?? They have them all already! 585 to look at one cert of good standing?
Hopeless website- way too heavy on the management speech.
You can only register from May on for the year July-June only?? What a joke.

It's not like we have a choice either...
Sorry- just needed to get that off my chest!

~could you elaborate

did you qualify in Ireland
Were you registered previosuly in Ireland

Did you deregister when they increased the fee

Are you coming with a certificate of good standing from the country you are in

If answers to the above are all YES then 585 to examine documents is very steep for what is in effect one phone call to whatever medical council issued the good standing cert

does this include your first years re-registration fee as well that would mean 485 + 100 which does not look so bad

Ultimately you must pay but i would not let the issue lie I would ask for a detailed breakdown of all charges from medical council and get on to TD

Traumadoc

The other option is to remain registered with them and be charged 400 a year. they used to have a smaller fee for Irish overseas resident docs but they increased it 4 years ago.

MrCreosote

To elaborate:
Qualified in Ireland, and deregistered when the fees of Irish docs overseas went up.
Yes to the cert of good standing- in fact will be emailed to them.
And the 450 to register is extra, so total of a thousand.

Oh well...
The thing that really annoyed me was only being able to register in a 2 month window. If I registered at the start of April they give me the 3 months till July for the same price!

DrIndy

total rip off in my opinion - shame that these bodies (like the RCPI) can get away with sheer extortion without accountability to their members.

I would like to know a detailed breakdown on why they justify these fees - particularily the RCPI who are charging €2000 or so per year for simply registering SpR's in their college.

In a time of recession - all wages and expenses drop - we (doctors) are having a extortionate wage cut proposed way, way, way beyond any other public service employee or even private sector employee (around 25-30%) - however, our college affiliation and medical council fees are not being reduced in keeping with other sectors.

Why is this?

drzhivago

MrCreosote wrote: »

To elaborate:
Qualified in Ireland, and deregistered when the fees of Irish docs overseas went up.
Yes to the cert of good standing- in fact will be emailed to them.
And the 450 to register is extra, so total of a thousand.

Oh well...
The thing that really annoyed me was only being able to register in a 2 month window. If I registered at the start of April they give me the 3 months till July for the same price!

Thats tough
Pay now and complain later

Didnt realise that you could only register at certain time periods, that is a new restriction on their working hours

I think we all should demand a list of charges and find out why they charge the fees they do