Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Rachel Kenna:

Yes, it is more structured than that. We have a number of policies in development that identify deficits in our training capacity to support our workforce development. From the medical point of view, we have covered that quite well but we can give the Deputy the detail on it. On nursing and midwifery, there are recent publications that show where we have to increase our numbers. In particular, midwifery is an area where we know we have to double our numbers in undergraduate training. Across the health and social care professionals, we have done a lot of strategic work with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in specific areas, such as physio, speech and language, dietetics and podiatry. These are areas where we know there are significant deficits in training.

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