The three-page letter, addressed “Dear Doctor”, begins by thanking medicos for their “dedication and forbearance” during the stand-off over controversial individual contracts.
“I am committed to working equally hard to restore relationships with our senior clinicians – so that together we can provide the health services Queenslanders expect and deserve,” Mr Springborg writes.
He details a long list of concessions put forward to convince doctors to sign their contracts, including a series of new safeguards freshly signed-off on by State Cabinet.
They include deleting the words “reputation, viability and profitability” from a section of the contract, laying out grounds for the termination of senior doctors working for Queensland Health.
Lawyers for doctor groups will tonight attend a meeting at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to explain the compromise deal to senior doctors.
But the Australian Medical Association Queensland has already endorsed the revised version of the contract.
Source: Courier Mail