Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion
Ms Magdalen Rogers:
We were very realistic from the start of the campaign. We called for up to 20 nurses a year over five years in order to implement the model of care for neurology services, and that would still be our messaging around that. As I said, we have seen an unprecedented number with the 30 positions funded this year, but it is important to point out that this is after a very long lag where no nurses were put in place for a long number of years. As I said, that just brings us to a little over half of what we need, so over the next four years, because that third level specialist training is coming on board in the next year or two, there will be capacity and training in the system to bring those nurses on stream.
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