Covid 19 Part XXVI- 50,993 ROI (1,852 deaths) 28,040 NI (621 deaths) (19/10) Read OP

Happydays2020 wrote: »

The last thing we need is another NPHET type structure. They are the goons who have been mismanaging the health service.

Everyone knows what needs to be done. Slaintecare is the blue print. Just needs the political will to do it and to take on the vested interests. That also means a one tier Public health system although capacity can be bought from the private hospitals for elective and routine, with public hospitals focused much more on emergency care.

It needs a lot more than political will. We don’t seem to understand what’s wrong with the system in the first place.

Every single political attempt to reform it in the past has failed. There have been very well intentioned people chewed up and spat out by the system.

Also it’s managed to do things politically like have groups of people fighting over a gold plated national children’s hospital projects, throwing millions upon millions down the drain designing and redesigning it because they started the project before finalising the site selection.

Umpteen experts from Ireland all non objectively opined ad nauseum about access and car parking and colocation. The project costs went up and up and up. Everyone was blamed, including rather unfairly the construction contractor, when the entire problem was abysmal decision making and chaotic processes.

Meanwhile we’ve our fleet of acute hospitals struggling to even deliver normal services because they are apparently starved of funds.

How anyone or any political parties can stand over that is beyond me and it points to a major problem and inability to see the big picture at all, which is why I would say a panel of external experts with a remit to absolutely let rip in a report is absolutely necessary.

We are pouring money into a giant hole that we can’t even define.

Slaintecare is useful but it needs a brutally blunt analysis of the system and options laid out before it. There’s so much wrong with the Irish healthcare system that it needs to be dealt with as a major intervention.

We can’t afford another mess like this again. We’ve very much been caught in a storm with no roof on the house, having spent 40 years debating the design of the roof tiles and a public ground down by a lifetime of chaotic healthcare delivery who accept this as normal.