Last week, we learned of the country’s chronic shortage of specialised car crash investigators, experts trained to determine the causes of road traffic accidents.

This week we learned of a different shortage in personnel. Cork University Hospital has 25% fewer radiation therapists than it needs to work with cancer patients, according to HSE Southwest. The hospital is short the equivalent of 13.5 full-time radiation therapists, with Priscilla Lynch, integrated healthcare area manager for Cork South and West, telling the Regional Health Forum South: “The most recent campaign to fill four clinical specialist RT posts secured one successful candidate.”

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