Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Sláintecare Reforms
Dr. Colm Henry:
If I could finish the sentence before Deputy Shortall comes back. Our current proportion is 6.9 GPs per 10,000. The ideal situation is in Scotland where there are 9.1 per 10,000. This will be done through increasing training places. In the intervening period while ramping that up to 450 per year we are recruiting non-EU doctors for hard to recruit areas, particularly in the north east and north west.
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