Number of rehab consultants ‘well below minimum’

THE number of consultants in rehabilitation medicine in Ireland falls well short of the recommended minimum, a medical chief claimed.

Dr Áine Carroll, the newly appointed national clinical lead in rehabilitation medicine, said Ireland has less than a third of the recommended number.

“We have seven at present and one of those in Cork is on a temporary contract,” she said, adding that the recommended number was 26. We are truly the Cinderella speciality,” said Dr Carroll.