Yep. That about sums it up. All through covid the ICU was a big pressure point and it was put on the people to “protect the health system”.
That’s fine in an emergency but we haven’t significantly boosted capacity and we just coast on.
An esri report ten years ago showed us to have fewer ICU beds than we should.
Still nothing done about that.
The HSE solution would be less mud, no whip, and far too many horses sitting around playing poker
There are more HSE bed managers than there are beds.
I’m the horse in that scenario (but I’m into that kinda thing)
This is the most reliable portrayal of corporate arrangements of all time.
I can’t verify this at all since it was a stat I heard on the radio so I’m very happy to be corrected, but apparently compared to 1990 the HSE has four times the number of nurses and ten times the number of managers.
If that’s correct, there must be so much waste in the form of unnecessary managerial positions. I can understand the desire to promote someone that’s doing well but frontline staff are necessary to improve the conditions in public hospitals.
For an area that receives about a quarter of the national budget healthcare really should be far better than it is.
This is the kind of meme my aunt shares on Facebook.
Unfortunately there are too many people’s salaries tied up in this type of arrangement.
Who are these people? Surely some of them are reading this or at least their friends or family members. Has anyone got any stories from HSE middle managers/admin staff being paid to scratch their arses?
This is basically the whole civil service too
Growing up HSE management was where councillors and politicans got their family cushy jobs.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
You forgot the fifth guy stuffing his pockets
Irish hospitals used to have very high ratios of beds. Hospitals places were cheap and plentiful. In one maternity hospital the average stay was 12.9 days. Imagine.
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Wonder if they’ve updated to windows 10 yet
Yep. That about sums it up. All through covid the ICU was a big pressure point and it was put on the people to “protect the health system”.
That’s fine in an emergency but we haven’t significantly boosted capacity and we just coast on.
An esri report ten years ago showed us to have fewer ICU beds than we should.
Still nothing done about that.
The HSE solution would be less mud, no whip, and far too many horses sitting around playing poker
There are more HSE bed managers than there are beds.
I’m the horse in that scenario (but I’m into that kinda thing)
This is the most reliable portrayal of corporate arrangements of all time.
I can’t verify this at all since it was a stat I heard on the radio so I’m very happy to be corrected, but apparently compared to 1990 the HSE has four times the number of nurses and ten times the number of managers.
If that’s correct, there must be so much waste in the form of unnecessary managerial positions. I can understand the desire to promote someone that’s doing well but frontline staff are necessary to improve the conditions in public hospitals.
For an area that receives about a quarter of the national budget healthcare really should be far better than it is.
This is the kind of meme my aunt shares on Facebook.
Unfortunately there are too many people’s salaries tied up in this type of arrangement.
Who are these people? Surely some of them are reading this or at least their friends or family members. Has anyone got any stories from HSE middle managers/admin staff being paid to scratch their arses?
This is basically the whole civil service too
Growing up HSE management was where councillors and politicans got their family cushy jobs.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
You forgot the fifth guy stuffing his pockets
Irish hospitals used to have very high ratios of beds. Hospitals places were cheap and plentiful. In one maternity hospital the average stay was 12.9 days. Imagine.