Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for the work they are doing in this area. One issue that arises is the changeover of junior doctors in our hospital system. Are the witnesses satisfied that we have comprehensive programme for dealing with that changeover, which tends to happen in January and June or July? Are they satisfied that we have enough processes in place to make sure the new doctors who are coming on stream know what they need to know? Some of them are coming into the Irish health system while others may be changing from hospital to hospital where there is a different focus compared with what they were doing. They might have been doing paediatrics in the last hospital and are now dealing with a totally different area like surgery. What programme is run in each hospital every six months?