Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Vanessa Hetherington:
That would achieve economies to the health service. We know that in a consultant-delivered service, decisions are made more quickly, outcomes are better and there would be a reduced length of stay in hospitals. All sorts of statistics exist for a consultant-delivered service but we continue to bring doctors into service posts rather than increasing the number of consultants we have in the system.