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Tue 06 Jun 2007US advice mooted to break talks deadlockThe independent chairman of the talks on a new contract for hospital consultants has told medical organisations and health service management that he would be happy to facilitate a meeting with international experts in negotiations if they believed it would be beneficial.In a private letter sent late last week to the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) and the Health Service Executive, the chairman, senior counsel Mark Connaughton, said he believed the parties might consider such a meeting to be fruitful.