Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority
2:00 am
Ms Angela Fitzgerald:
Yes, and I think the emergency medicine programme would have some guidance. The reason they look at minimum numbers is to tie into the point both Mr. Egan and Dr. Ryan have made, which is you need to have certain numbers to support sustainable rosters. You need to be seeing enough people to maintain your skill and gain expertise and that is very true in the areas of critical care and anaesthetics. It is also true in regard to surgery. If you are presented with a patient who has a very complex surgical intervention, you need to be seeing enough of them.