Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Electronic Health Records: Discussion

Mr. Fran Thompson:

We have grown that from a historically low basis. You cannot take in lots of IT people in one go. They must be gradually brought in because they have to be trained, and they must understand the healthcare system. Within our organisation, there is a crew of people under Mr. Redmond involved in recruiting. We have met our targets in recruitment for the last two years, which is a challenge given the marketplace. We have a good training programme for those people to bring them along. We have to do it in incremental chunks, otherwise we will flood the system.

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