Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE

Mr. Damien McCallion:

One of the key things in the winter plan was around trying to look at safer staffing, for both nurses and medical staff. We will not be able to fill some of the medical consultants and supporting doctors positions permanently in that timescale. It can take up to a year. People are international. We are trying to tap in to that and get people home. The key message is that if there is a permanent post, it is potentially more attractive to a locum to come back. That is what we are hoping. We knew we would not fill all those posts this winter. This was not just for the winter. It was trying to strengthen the medical numbers for the future. Hopefully, that will be what happens.

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