Dr. Gabrielle Colleran:

Yes. We need to make our system self-sufficient. Enough doctors are graduating to provide our own pipeline and, equally, there are excellent doctors coming from abroad. The latter must have equitable access to training and specialisation so that when they finish, they can either go on the specialist register and become consultants here or will have acquired the excellence skills to do the same in their own countries. At the moment, we are poaching them and using them for service provision in smaller hospitals where they are not in training posts.