Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners
Dr. Diarmuid Quinlan:
I do not believe it will be 2,000 overnight. That is what we anticipate will be needed. We know we need that number. It would be an incremental increase. There are many nurses who are not working in clinical work in hospitals. Many of them would be attracted to general practice if there was a training programme to support them and integrate them into general practice.