Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners

Mr. Fintan Foy:

Our trainees spend two years in hospital-based posts and two years in general practices. The rate-limiting factor is the availability of hospital training posts, particularly around some of the specialties such as paediatrics. To give credit where it is due, there is strong engagement between ourselves and the HSE on that to identify those posts. What stops further expansion is the availability of hospital posts. Also, it is that-----

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