Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Ms Anne Marie Hoey:
We can certainly see that our nursing workforce has increased substantially over the past couple of years. We have more than 42,000 nurses employed across the HSE at the moment. In the area of public health nursing, the number of public health nurses in training has also increased in recent years. That trajectory will continue. There is work under way between the HSE and the higher education institutions in terms of increasing the number of sponsorship-----
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