Bernard Allen
Ceist:152 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to carry out a detailed census of Irish non-consultant hospital doctors in order to plan more fully for medical manpower and training needs.
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152 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to carry out a detailed census of Irish non-consultant hospital doctors in order to plan more fully for medical manpower and training needs.
The matter of a census of Irish non-consultant hospital doctors for the purpose of medical manpower planning and determination of training needs is currently under consideration in my Department.
153 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on a recent Irish Medical Organisation report that Irish consultants are failing to provide an adequate level of supervision for non-consultant hospital doctors working under them in State-funded hospitals; and the steps he proposes to take on the report.
I am aware of the report the Deputy refers to only through an article in the medical press of the 3 May concerning it. I have not seen the report itself. It was not submitted to me by the Irish Medical Organisation's NCDH sub-committee which drew it up.