Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Robert Watt:

It may be useful for us to send the committee more detail based on the trends in recruitment and those in training, undergraduate placement and all the various aspects. It might be useful to set that out and then try to overlay it with the waiting lists, that is, in which areas are people waiting. We can link that list to a shortage of professionals to deal with people on waiting lists and then identify the gaps. That is the demand and supply capacity analysis that we have been trying to do and which Ms Goff touched on earlier. Mr. Reid and I will try to collate the various requests from members and come back with a composite note. The next time we meet, then, members may be able to ask about a particular area and point out that we are not doing enough work there relative to the lists. That is, in effect, what we are trying to do with the workforce planning. We can send members more information that might help to give an overall assessment of it.

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