Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Mr. Liam Woods:

There are two categories. There are those who are not on a specialist register who were appointed pre-2008 and did not have a duty at that time to be on the specialist register, and continued since that time. There are also those who have come in since 2008. We would like all categories to be on the specialist register. There are 27 in mental health and the balance of that 134 are in acute hospitals. Many of those are psychiatry posts, which we discussed earlier today. These doctors are mostly, though not totally, located in smaller units outside major urban centres. With regard to human resources, HR, we have a national unit that works with doctors on doctors' training. We have written to all groups, group chiefs and clinical directors to support as many of those doctors as we can in registering on the register of specialists.

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