Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I am taking this in very round terms. If I take the position that this year we will recruit thousands of people, because we replace people all the time, but the net additional growth was planned to be about 6,100, which is what we were budgeted for and targeting, by about September we already had about 5,400 of those in place, with contractual commitments and all of the graduate nurses ready to come on that were going to take us over the 6,100. We are certainly talking about a minimum of 700 to 800 offers that had been accepted and possibly more. I would not be surprised if we breached 6,100 by a figure and I am just waiting to see what that is. The difference between 5,300 and what we finish up with at the end of the year will be the offers that were in place and accepted.
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