Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 691: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultants, doctors, nurses or other professionals currently employed in the public general hospital services sector; the extent to which this is sufficient to meet requirements on the matter [29811/12]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The latest detailed employment data available from the HSE Personnel Census (April 2012) indicates that there are 102,455 wholetime equivalent (WTE) staff working in the public health service. Of this figure, 47,681 WTE work in acute hospitals. Within the total employed in the medical/dental category, 2,445 WTE are consultants and 4,915 WTE are non consultant hospital doctors. However, not all of these doctors work in an acute hospital setting. In the HSE census 1,955 WTE consultants and 4,124 WTE non consultant hospital doctors are categorised as working in acute hospitals.