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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: -----will help the situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I want to raise one other issue and that is the weakness of the out-of-hours cover that is being provided. It seems to be more designed to comply with an outdated contract rather than actually providing alternative pathways for people to the emergency departments, EDs. A parent with a young child has very few options in terms of where they can access care out of hours. Is there potential...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It can suit some.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: When Dr. Quinlan says employed in SouthDoc, who are they employed by?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is somewhat different from what I am talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: -----where they could be employed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Sure, but people do not necessarily get sick during daytime hours. I want to be clear that it is not a criticism of doctors, and I would not expect a doctor who is working a full week with all the onerous responsibilities in a practice to then do night-time hours. What I am asking is whether there is potential for increasing capacity by employing people? For example, the HSE would employ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Dr. Quinlan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There is all this talk about a plan without an engine. My problem is that I do not see the plan. We can put an engine in place later but there is no plan there at the moment for general practice and that is the big problem. Indeed, we have been talking about this at this committee for a long time. There is no workforce plan in existence and that has been the huge gap and the reason we are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am not suggesting for a moment that existing GPs or their practices would be undermined. I have always been of the view that the contract should provide funding for premises. If a GP is providing his or her own premises, that should be recognised but equally if a GP cannot provide his or her own premises, it should be provided by the State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: We need to go very wide on this. People have raised the point there about employment or premises but I was looking at what the Minister has said recently on the shortage of GPs. He starts responses to Dáil questions by stating that GPs are self-employed practitioners and, therefore, may establish practices at a place of their own choosing, that there is no prescribed ratio of GPs to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Has there been research done or has anybody asked newly graduating GPs why they are emigrating?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. It is about asking people what they need to stay here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am just thinking about the Dr. Niamh Humphries survey and the research into hospital doctors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Has Mr. Foy been given any indication of the timescale that will apply to the review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: We have been told that recently and have concentrated a lot on workforce planning. There is no evidence that there is a team in the Department concentrating on this and that is what we would like to see.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. The other issue that was mentioned was shared GMS contracts and a suggestion about the need for those if somebody understandably wants a better work-life balance and is not committed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Where are we with a possible review of that contract?