Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Paul Reid:
I will make some comments very briefly on the recruitment of consultants. We have recruited 360 consultants in the past two years, which is the highest level of consultant recruitment we have done in a long period of time. I fully acknowledge the issues that are there; they impact us on recruitment. However, I would just like to say that the past two years has been the highest level of recruitment we have had in many years.
Second, on public health nursing, we hugely value the role of public health nursing. This is part of the model of community health networks and having multidisciplinary integrated teams in the community across a range of network. Part of that is recruiting public health nurses and not just nursing managers. I do not have the full breakdown, but-----
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