Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion

Dr. Rita Doyle:

I think that is a question more for the HSE than for me. I am not involved in HR but I hear the stories from the doctors of how badly they are treated. Somebody said to me last week that when a doctor in Ireland gets a phone call from HR, he or she shakes. This doctor's daughter was doing her general practice in Australia. The daughter said that when she got a phone call from HR she was absolutely shaking but they just rang to know how she was getting on and had she made the change all right. It is a different culture.