Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
My question is on the HSE appointment of locums. It goes to the issue of a number of investigations which are under way. If someone is working in a hospital as a locum and an error is made, nothing prevents that person from being re-employed in another hospital. There is no mechanism to record issues. There is an issue arising where a hospital is short a doctor on a Friday, for example, and rings up to find that the only person available is someone who may have had difficulties in other hospitals but is put in to a job for the weekend. There is no record within the HSE on this issue. I ask for something on that. Is there a mechanism for dealing with this issue?
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