Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare

Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups

9:00 am

Dr. Susan O'Reilly:

We do not, at this time, recruit on a group basis principally because 70% of our revenue goes in to the voluntary hospitals and they have their own board structures and run their own recruitment, and they do it well and quickly. We tap into some of their activities to assist us. That has been very positive from our perspective. Generally, where nurses can be moved to is governed by the union rules. Doctors generally want to know where they are going to be working and their contracts usually will specify if they are joint appointments or not. I believe we have been quite effective in having joint appointments in a number of specialties. In the interest of time I will not list all of them now but should the committee need them I would be happy to do so. That is ongoing across a number of our hospitals and it is very important

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