Record number of new vets and nurses register with Veterinary Council of Ireland
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The Veterinary Council of Ireland, the statutory body responsible for the regulation and management of the practise of veterinary medicine and veterinary nursing in the state, recorded 229 new vets and 107 new veterinary nurses on its register in 2020.
The statutory body welcomes its new registrants and believes this influx of additional talent will benefit animal health and welfare in Ireland. The number of new vets and veterinary nurses is the highest ever recorded in a single year.
The total number of vets and veterinary nurses on the Veterinary Council register currently stands at 3,045 and 1,087 respectively, which is an all-time high in terms of the number of veterinary professionals working in Ireland.
Record number of new vets and nurses on the books in Ireland
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The Veterinary Council of Ireland, the statutory body responsible for the regulation and management of the practise of veterinary medicine and veterinary nursing in the state, recorded 229 new vets and 107 new veterinary nurses on its register in 2020.
The statutory body welcomes its new registrants and believes this influx of additional talent will benefit animal health and welfare in Ireland. The number of new vets and veterinary nurses is the highest ever recorded in a single year.
The total number of vets and veterinary nurses on the Veterinary Council register currently stands at 3,045 and 1,087 respectively, which is an all-time high in terms of the number of veterinary professionals working in Ireland.
Niamh Muldoon
The Veterinary Council of Ireland recorded 229 new vets and 107 new veterinary nurses on its register in 2020, it has announced today (Tuesday, January 12).
The number of new vets and veterinary nurses is the highest ever recorded in a single year.
The total number of vets and veterinary nurses on the Veterinary Council register currently stands at 3,045 and 1,087 respectively.
This is an all-time high in terms of the number of veterinary professionals working in Ireland, as
AgriLand recently reported.
Of the 229 newly-registered vets, 100 were awarded their Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree from University College Dublin (UCD).
The remaining vets graduated from a number of schools of veterinary medicine abroad, with the most popular being the University of Medicine in Budapest (which accounted for 31 newly registered vets) and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland (which accounted for 12 vets).
Student nurses at Dundalk Institute of Technology are among those campaigning to get paid for the work they do while on placement in hospitals.
The students work alongside regular staff, and in March this year the INMO called for the students nurses and midwives completing unpaid work placements during the pandemic to be paid and protected as employees.
A scheme was put in place so that they were offered contracts as a healthcare assistants (HCAs) and are paid accordingly but this ended in August.
Now, the Government is under pressure to extend the scheme for students on work placement during the continuing pandemic.
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Letterkenny University Hospital
Letterkenny University Hospital is undertaking the largest recruitment campaign in the hospital’s history, with positions available across nursing specialities, midwifery, consultant and non-consultant hospital doctor specialities, laboratory, radiology and pharmacy, physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. There are also opportunities for Health Care Assistants and administration and support staff.
Sean Murphy Hospital Manager said services provided to patients continues to develop at Letterkenny University Hospital.
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Over the coming months, LUH will recruit up to 120 posts, of which in the region of 100 are new posts, across a wide number of departments to support existing services and enable the development of new services.