Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

Ms Anne O'Connor:

I will take that and ask Dr. Henry comment as well. There is now a plan. A group has been established that I am chairing which is focused specifically on medical recruitment, supervision and patient safety. There are several work streams within that. The first relates to the issue raised by the Deputy where doctors who are not in the specialist division are employed as consultants. We will also examine non-training scheme doctors, the recruitment processes relating to non-consultant doctors and consultants, retention, and configuration of services. Taking the Deputy's point, we know that we are very challenged on this. We have had a team working under Professor Frank Murray, which has gone around the country to assure itself of governance and to ensure adequate supervision is in place today and that there are no risks in this regard. Much work has gone on but we know that strategically we need a far more robust plan which looks at how we address this now and in the future.

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