Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion

3:55 pm

Ms Laverne McGuinness:

We have put together the standards that now need to be implemented. Those standards were completed in January 2013. We are changing rosters and unrostered overtime. We are doing exactly what one of the Deputies said, because some of the tasks that are currently carried out by junior doctors do not necessarily need to be, including cannulations and catheterisations, as set out in our statement. Professor Eilis McGovern will speak about the training programme. There is also an engagement with clinical directors and consultants. Since 2005, the number of consultants has increased by 33%. That is the programme, and there will be challenges.

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