Ireland’s health service must ‘futureproof’ against an oncoming paediatric surgeon shortage, a surgeon has warned.
The Working Group for the General Paediatric Surgery Model of Care is calling for a new model of care to increase the number of children’s surgeons available.
“We have a situation where we struggle to get many of these operations carried out satisfactorily in the small hospitals around the country,” he said. Dr Mealy said this model would address the “lack of desire and lack of training” developing in paediatric surgery.
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