Fair play to him. Managed to earn 420k per year. Or a nurses annual salary every month
What are his achievements since taking over?
Covid was great for all these lads, getting bigger jobs outside the HSE
Good riddance
Head of fingal County council to HSE chief. How did that ever make sense.
Edit, spelling
Great timing too, isn’t it?
What a shit show.
I wonder what scandal he is getting out in front of here.
Don’t think he was ever necessarily a good fit for the job but that said, even if you get someone good in the whole HSE is such a shambles they’ll be forced out.
Thought from whatever I saw of him during COVID that he’d weathered it alright, kept things as level as he could. Didn’t really feel there were any big changes or reforms coming under him before COVID and suspected nothing would happen after either, so his resignation pretty much confirms it. Partially wondering if he reckons now is a good time to go as NCHDs will highly likely be going on strike and I think the consultants aren’t far away either or maybe there’s something else coming down the tracks.
On the ground nothing really changed during his tenure. Saw more and more colleagues quit or leave, continued working a billion hours a week, watched elderly patients stack up on trolleys in A&Es in hospitals throughout the country. Not going to lay that all at his door because the problems run much deeper than whoever is in charge and most of this stuff was long ingrained when he took up the gig. He just didn’t really do anything to make it better, but as I’ve hinted at, I’m not convinced the CEO of the HSE has as much power as we think in the organisation.
Anyone know why he’s off ? Was he pushed or what ?
Fair play. He stood up when he was needed. Tough job at the best of times.
“He leaves behind him an organisation much enhanced for his time as Chief Executive and one that is already making real progress in implementing reform and improvement across many aspects of healthcare provision”
Good lad! Now that the jobs done on Navan! Sure we’ve far too many public hospitals in Ireland! Only 21 private compared to 48 public. How do you expect private hospitals to make money if too many people have access to free healthcare? /s
Love everyone tossing shit in here. Im no HSE fan but the level of pressure he has been under for the last 2 years has been incredible. Levels that full time mad bastards commenting in here couldn’t even start to imagine. Get a fucking grip lads, it’s a ridiculously hard job and yeah the salary is huge, but the organization has a 20 billion odd budget. What would you think the next lad will have to be paid to take that on.
What he’s giving up 420k a year?
Must be heading for a better pay package.
Rats escaping the ship, if there was any political will they would be hiring people who want to transform the health service for the betterment of everyone.
Led the HSE through probably the most difficult periods in its history. Navigating the politics of a public health system is not an easy task. Best of luck with whatever he attends to next.
I can’t say he did a particularly good job. I can’t say he did a particularly poor one.
Hopefully whoever replaces him is of a higher standard and at a similar or lower salary.
There is never a better person for such position than someone internal
Good riddance and good night, Paul. Take R Watt with you. The HSE needs such a fundamental shakedown from top to bottom it would give a stone a headache. Too many middle and senior managers doing nothing to progress the organisation only picking up their handsome pay cheque.
Now just another 99% of management to go and we’re good.
Id be gone too. Nothing worse than a job where your boss tries to undermine you at every turn. Our government pays millions every year to hire experts in different fields only to ignore their advice when they know it might damage their re-election ambitions.
Ill never forget the night Leo did the primetime interview and condemned the advice of Tony Holohan. 2 weeks later we had some of the worst covid statistics in the world.
Good riddance.
Spoofer
Not nearly soon enough.
Paid more than his UK equivalent – yes
Paid more than the President of the Jaysus United States – incredibly, yes again
Good fucking riddance
Now, put someone in charge that will actually **improve** our Second World standard health service
Where the fuck do our taxes go?
Seems fairly obvious that he sees that there isn’t the political will to make the necessary changes to fix the HSE which are often unpopular to the general public
Last year Ransomware attack was estimated to cost 600m… they named CISO after the attack. If the conti group didn’t gave the decryption key probably they would had lost lot of old patient data. Conti still asked 20m ransom for not leaking the patient data
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Fair play to him. Managed to earn 420k per year. Or a nurses annual salary every month
What are his achievements since taking over?
Covid was great for all these lads, getting bigger jobs outside the HSE
Good riddance
Head of fingal County council to HSE chief. How did that ever make sense.
Edit, spelling
Great timing too, isn’t it?
What a shit show.
I wonder what scandal he is getting out in front of here.
Don’t think he was ever necessarily a good fit for the job but that said, even if you get someone good in the whole HSE is such a shambles they’ll be forced out.
Thought from whatever I saw of him during COVID that he’d weathered it alright, kept things as level as he could. Didn’t really feel there were any big changes or reforms coming under him before COVID and suspected nothing would happen after either, so his resignation pretty much confirms it. Partially wondering if he reckons now is a good time to go as NCHDs will highly likely be going on strike and I think the consultants aren’t far away either or maybe there’s something else coming down the tracks.
On the ground nothing really changed during his tenure. Saw more and more colleagues quit or leave, continued working a billion hours a week, watched elderly patients stack up on trolleys in A&Es in hospitals throughout the country. Not going to lay that all at his door because the problems run much deeper than whoever is in charge and most of this stuff was long ingrained when he took up the gig. He just didn’t really do anything to make it better, but as I’ve hinted at, I’m not convinced the CEO of the HSE has as much power as we think in the organisation.
Anyone know why he’s off ? Was he pushed or what ?
Fair play. He stood up when he was needed. Tough job at the best of times.
“He leaves behind him an organisation much enhanced for his time as Chief Executive and one that is already making real progress in implementing reform and improvement across many aspects of healthcare provision”
https://youtu.be/qACgkwyuA-w
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out
Good lad! Now that the jobs done on Navan! Sure we’ve far too many public hospitals in Ireland! Only 21 private compared to 48 public. How do you expect private hospitals to make money if too many people have access to free healthcare? /s
Love everyone tossing shit in here. Im no HSE fan but the level of pressure he has been under for the last 2 years has been incredible. Levels that full time mad bastards commenting in here couldn’t even start to imagine. Get a fucking grip lads, it’s a ridiculously hard job and yeah the salary is huge, but the organization has a 20 billion odd budget. What would you think the next lad will have to be paid to take that on.
What he’s giving up 420k a year?
Must be heading for a better pay package.
Rats escaping the ship, if there was any political will they would be hiring people who want to transform the health service for the betterment of everyone.
Led the HSE through probably the most difficult periods in its history. Navigating the politics of a public health system is not an easy task. Best of luck with whatever he attends to next.
I can’t say he did a particularly good job. I can’t say he did a particularly poor one.
Hopefully whoever replaces him is of a higher standard and at a similar or lower salary.
There is never a better person for such position than someone internal
Good riddance and good night, Paul. Take R Watt with you. The HSE needs such a fundamental shakedown from top to bottom it would give a stone a headache. Too many middle and senior managers doing nothing to progress the organisation only picking up their handsome pay cheque.
Now just another 99% of management to go and we’re good.
Id be gone too. Nothing worse than a job where your boss tries to undermine you at every turn. Our government pays millions every year to hire experts in different fields only to ignore their advice when they know it might damage their re-election ambitions.
Ill never forget the night Leo did the primetime interview and condemned the advice of Tony Holohan. 2 weeks later we had some of the worst covid statistics in the world.
Good riddance.
Spoofer
Not nearly soon enough.
Paid more than his UK equivalent – yes
Paid more than the President of the Jaysus United States – incredibly, yes again
Good fucking riddance
Now, put someone in charge that will actually **improve** our Second World standard health service
Where the fuck do our taxes go?
Seems fairly obvious that he sees that there isn’t the political will to make the necessary changes to fix the HSE which are often unpopular to the general public
Last year Ransomware attack was estimated to cost 600m… they named CISO after the attack. If the conti group didn’t gave the decryption key probably they would had lost lot of old patient data. Conti still asked 20m ransom for not leaking the patient data