JUNIOR doctors have not yet been given their promised $1,400 lump sum, Health Minister Dr Duane Sands said yesterday. "This is all about the movement of cash back and forth and the issues of messaging between finance (officials) and PHA (Public Hospitals Authority) and the conventional rules of public service," he said. "What has happened is a pronouncement was made that certain people would be getting $1,400. "In the first instance, the funding was not forwarded to PHA in time to make the original pay sheet. We would have said non-consulting doctors and nurses would get the $1,400. The nursing union and the doctors' union would've been given a written assurance of this but as you know the money doesn't arrive from Public Hospitals Authority or the Ministry of Health, it comes from (Ministry of) Finance. They've had to go back and forth in terms of what the dollar amount is that should be transferred to meet the needs to pay all these staff members. To date, finance says they have gotten the money but PHA says they don't believe they've gotten it."

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