Ireland must address growing reliance on foreign doctors, RCSI

Ireland must urgently put in place effective retention measures for Irish trained doctors and comply with global responsibilities not to recruit doctors from poorer countries that can ill afford to lose their doctors.

A new report by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has also warned that this can only be done by providing better working conditions, better terms and conditions and more attractive training and clearer career paths for the doctors which Ireland produces.