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:

It is the group. Groups are made up of between seven and 11 hospitals. I am not suggesting in any way that safety is compromised because consultants know one another but the underlying point I want to make is that the clinical director in Ireland East hospital group, for example, has 11 hospitals across an extensive area to work with. The larger numbers here are in a relatively small number of units. Going to the heart of the matter, there is a balance between providing a safe service and having clinical personnel to do that and assuring ourselves that that is safe. That assessment and support to get people on the register is what we are doing right now.

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