The Medical Council’s new “fast-track” registration process for “critical or urgent” medical posts in the HSE has cut processing times for this cohort by around 94 per cent. “Project Gateway” is a collaborative initiative with the HSE aimed at fast-tracking critical or urgent posts. According to a Medical Council spokesperson: “The purpose of this project is to allow senior hospital staff to directly notify the Medical Council of priority registrations, enabling the registration department to expedite applications. “The fast-track process has cut processing times from 40 weeks to just 2.5 weeks, an efficiency improvement of approximately 94 per cent. The total number of open applications included doctors deemed eligible for registration, but who had not yet activated their registration.

Source: Irish Independent October 20, 2024 18:11 UTC