Study: 'Chronic haemorrhage of doctors' down to poor working conditions and training opportunities

More than 80% believed that working conditions and training opportunities were better abroad.

More than 80% of trainee doctors have said that working conditions, training opportunities, and work-life balance are factors that would influence their decision to leave Ireland, according to new Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) research

The survey published today in the Human Resources for Health journal also found that almost one fifth of the 523 doctors who took part in the survey had already left Ireland between 2014 and 2016 to practice medicine abroad.