The secrecy is unacceptable especially considering that the system is funded by the taxpayer.
Yet, the Irish press needs to work harder on these stories. Who is running the show? What is the name of the person who signed off on the decision to not publish the report? Did the reporter attempt to obtain a statement from the individual? Can we have that person’s picture plastered on the front page of the paper? Placing the blame on “the HSE” means nothing to the reader.
There’s a serious lack of accountability in Ireland, and it shows.
Is anyone surprised, joining the culture of secrecy is mandatory when you join the HSE, it why the organisation never gets any better or will never get better
The people who have the power to change it never will because they’re not the ones witnessing first hand what’s going on.
If only there was some kind of journalism you could engage in to expose such secrets!
Maybe involving investigation of some kind
Shithole country
I told a friend how I had become disillusioned with my role in a healthcare adjacent manufacturing industry-how I had seen things that were not exactly ethical or caring towards patients but still fell within acceptable bounds by regulators, a hush hush culture when it came to deaths and injuries that there was a possibility that our products could have been involved (they can’t sue/investigate us if they just assume it was an unavoidable accident), I was particularly upset with a story of a very young child who had died from a very impoverished background and the multibillion-dollar company basically sent any emails concerning this case with a general message of this is tragic but shut up and say nothing, this multibillion-dollar company trying to save a few bucks there-my friend who was a doctor scoffed and said ‘you think that’s bad you should see what I see’…..didnt give me great confidence in our health service tbh.
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The secrecy is unacceptable especially considering that the system is funded by the taxpayer.
Yet, the Irish press needs to work harder on these stories. Who is running the show? What is the name of the person who signed off on the decision to not publish the report? Did the reporter attempt to obtain a statement from the individual? Can we have that person’s picture plastered on the front page of the paper? Placing the blame on “the HSE” means nothing to the reader.
There’s a serious lack of accountability in Ireland, and it shows.
Is anyone surprised, joining the culture of secrecy is mandatory when you join the HSE, it why the organisation never gets any better or will never get better
The people who have the power to change it never will because they’re not the ones witnessing first hand what’s going on.
If only there was some kind of journalism you could engage in to expose such secrets!
Maybe involving investigation of some kind
Shithole country
I told a friend how I had become disillusioned with my role in a healthcare adjacent manufacturing industry-how I had seen things that were not exactly ethical or caring towards patients but still fell within acceptable bounds by regulators, a hush hush culture when it came to deaths and injuries that there was a possibility that our products could have been involved (they can’t sue/investigate us if they just assume it was an unavoidable accident), I was particularly upset with a story of a very young child who had died from a very impoverished background and the multibillion-dollar company basically sent any emails concerning this case with a general message of this is tragic but shut up and say nothing, this multibillion-dollar company trying to save a few bucks there-my friend who was a doctor scoffed and said ‘you think that’s bad you should see what I see’…..didnt give me great confidence in our health service tbh.