‘Sometimes I doze off and hope I didn’t do something wrong’

Niall Kelly, a registrar at Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick, says he worries about making mistakes because of the long hours he works.

“Going back on the day job after being on call all night is really tough because you have to keep your focus and concentrate on what you are doing,” he said.

Dr Kelly, who qualified as a doctor in 2009, said he had fallen asleep in the emergency department on a number of occasions after a night on call.