Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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That is it. To qualify as a specialist, doctors go through extensive training. Even in terms of leadership, it was described to me how a person who had to have a nurse help them to put an IV in one week was leading an entire team the next week. That just seems absolute madness.