Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

With regard to the improvement question, which is fundamentally where the Deputy is going although I would not assume that, the new public-only consultant contract provides for a very different banding structure of how consultants' hours are rostered and deployed. We had at the last count 622 signed up to that contract. As we increase the capability to deploy differently, we will reduce the type of incident we have here. With the type of incident we have here, there are parts of the country where there are one or two specialties that are just impossible to fill. They have to be there. As the chief financial officer said, it is that constant tension and balance. That said, I personally believe that in management terms there can still be better controls about the number of call-ins and how they are managed and monitored.

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