‘Phoney war’ on shortage

The Chairman of the IMO NCHD Committee has described recent predictions of an impending crisis in NCHD numbers as a ‘phoney war’. Dr Matt Sadlier told IMT that it would probably only be in the week before the July changeover that a definite idea of the numbers would emerge, and thus the possible implications for the health service and the current NCHD workforce. {openx:269} “At the moment, the HSE is still looking to recruit and fill the posts, so it has not looked to reassign doctors or change rosters. If that were to happen, then we would have to respond,”…