Donnelly unhappy with lack of medicine places in colleges, internal emails reveal

The Department of Health told colleagues in the Department of Further and Higher Education that the shortage of medical graduates needed to be 'addressed immediately'.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly was “not happy” with the provision of just a handful of extra places on college medicine courses for this academic year.

Internal emails reveal how the minister was deeply disappointed with plans for just a few more spaces and had wanted an additional 200 student places to be provided.