Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board
2:00 am
Mr. David Sweeney:
As part of the application process to either replace or generate a new consultant post, there is a work practice plan established. That is worked through by the relevant department or sub-speciality and hospital management to advance. That will set out a level of commitment within the weekly workload and weekly working hours, which is a balance between clinical activity, such as outpatients, theatres, endoscopy procedures or whatever the speciality is, and the administrative element in terms of consults, rounding, taking chart reports and reporting on-----
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