>This year the bill topped half a billion euro, hitting €530m, and the minister warned that it will continue to rise unless something is done.
Half a billy I assume year to date on negligence?
>Mr Donnelly was before the Health Committee to ask for approval for a supplementary budget for his department of almost €1.4bn.
WTF are they doing in the HSE, just burning piles of cash or something?
Health budget in 2018 was 15.3bn
Health Budget in 2022 was 21bn.
That’s a 40% increase. If this continues in same direction, health budget in 4 years will be 29bn.
The payments in Ireland are out of keeping with other countries, both in terms of how much is paid out and the threshold for claims.
What will they do beyond demonizing these recipients and making it more difficult to make such a claim?
Double down on privatization? Make HSE provide its services for free to private hospitals so it has no chance to compete?
>The introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme might be of benefit, he suggested.
Perhaps they might also investigate why medical negligence keeps happening time and time again in Ireland.
3 key issues with it really
1. The legal professionals in this are bottom feeding sharks that know how to abuse the system – as do their patients. No matter how good a job you do for a patient there are always flaws to pick – a perfect example is the slew of birth related lawsuits recently “the child was not given oxygen for 30 seconds” “there was a failure to give steroids” etc.. You can do something 98% perfectly, and if you have the remaining 2% to 10 specialists they might disagree as to the best management – it doesn’t matter, you’ll be slated for it and a huge payout made.
You could say – doesn’t matter just take the time and ensure absolutely no mistakes, and that is EXACTLY why we have such wasteful layers of admin and paper pushers. Mostly doctors and nurses spend more time documenting what’s happening rather than treating.
2. The HSE often doesn’t take cases to court and instead just settle them. Often honestly the HSE would have a good chance of winning the cases – if you read the statements from the judges they even say it themselves. But a protracted legal battle with tax payers money paying both sides just costs more in the end. Even if the claimants lose it’s not like they’ll have enough to pay the legal costs of the (often flippant) cases they take. Easier just to settle and keep going.
3. Some patients are just psychopaths and genuinely come in with the intention of taking legal action against you. There is nothing anyone can do about that.
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>This year the bill topped half a billion euro, hitting €530m, and the minister warned that it will continue to rise unless something is done.
Half a billy I assume year to date on negligence?
>Mr Donnelly was before the Health Committee to ask for approval for a supplementary budget for his department of almost €1.4bn.
WTF are they doing in the HSE, just burning piles of cash or something?
Health budget in 2018 was 15.3bn
Health Budget in 2022 was 21bn.
That’s a 40% increase. If this continues in same direction, health budget in 4 years will be 29bn.
The payments in Ireland are out of keeping with other countries, both in terms of how much is paid out and the threshold for claims.
What will they do beyond demonizing these recipients and making it more difficult to make such a claim?
Double down on privatization? Make HSE provide its services for free to private hospitals so it has no chance to compete?
>The introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme might be of benefit, he suggested.
Perhaps they might also investigate why medical negligence keeps happening time and time again in Ireland.
3 key issues with it really
1. The legal professionals in this are bottom feeding sharks that know how to abuse the system – as do their patients. No matter how good a job you do for a patient there are always flaws to pick – a perfect example is the slew of birth related lawsuits recently “the child was not given oxygen for 30 seconds” “there was a failure to give steroids” etc.. You can do something 98% perfectly, and if you have the remaining 2% to 10 specialists they might disagree as to the best management – it doesn’t matter, you’ll be slated for it and a huge payout made.
You could say – doesn’t matter just take the time and ensure absolutely no mistakes, and that is EXACTLY why we have such wasteful layers of admin and paper pushers. Mostly doctors and nurses spend more time documenting what’s happening rather than treating.
2. The HSE often doesn’t take cases to court and instead just settle them. Often honestly the HSE would have a good chance of winning the cases – if you read the statements from the judges they even say it themselves. But a protracted legal battle with tax payers money paying both sides just costs more in the end. Even if the claimants lose it’s not like they’ll have enough to pay the legal costs of the (often flippant) cases they take. Easier just to settle and keep going.
3. Some patients are just psychopaths and genuinely come in with the intention of taking legal action against you. There is nothing anyone can do about that.