The deterioration of job quality and extreme working hours are a key driver of emigration for Irish doctors.
Dr Niamh Humphries Royal College of Physicians of Ireland LAST YEAR, 300 Irish doctors got visas to work in Australia, many of whom were recently qualified.
Of the doctors I interviewed, 40 had lived to Australia since 2008. Of those, 38 had last worked as Non-consultant hospital doctors before leaving Ireland and only 14 were planning to return to work in Ireland. In contrast, their jobs in Irish hospitals resembled extreme jobs – highly stressful and pressurised, involving long working hours, high levels of responsibility and set within a context of a health system under strain.
They spoke of the challenge of working long hours in a fast-paced environment within which everyone was “flat-out working really hard” and where they struggled to find time to take adequate rest breaks.
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