HSE ‘holding up plans for school of medicine’

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has been accused of holding up the tendering process for the proposed graduate entry school of medicine which the Government plans to open next September.

It is intended that up to 250 places in medical faculties will be open to applicants who already hold third-level degrees and will not have to reach the points criteria required at present to get into medicine.

All the existing medical faculties have stated they want to participate in the new graduate entry programme.