Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation

Ms Susan Clyne:

It happens with nurses and physiotherapists. There is a lot of emigration in the healthcare setting. There is considerable targeting and we will see more of it in the coming months. There are advertisements at the bus stops outside the Mater hospital and on billboards above railway bridges near hospitals stating, "Come work for us." Everybody here who is a doctor will get several emails per day from a recruitment company. Those recruitment companies in other countries have identified why someone might leave. We have identified what will make people stay. Doctors should always go abroad and it is important that they do so and get that experience.

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