Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Department of Health
Medical Internships
5:00 am
Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the internship for junior doctors to two years as per the requirement in the UK where junior doctors must work foundation years one and two before completing their internship, in order to help combat the shortage of junior doctors here [18119/11]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the HSE that there is currently no shortage of interns in the public hospital system. However, the question of contracting doctors who are trained in Ireland to work for a certain period of time in our public health system is among the options which I intend to examine in the context of healthcare workforce planning.
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