This article (not the first one that paints a grim picture of Irish hospitals) made me wonder: not like it’s a solution but are there private healthcare/hospital options at all? Any info would be appreciated. [https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/my-aande-nightmare-four-days-on-a-trolley-among-crack-addicts-pools-of-urine-and-overworked-staff/a1477675008.html](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/my-aande-nightmare-four-days-on-a-trolley-among-crack-addicts-pools-of-urine-and-overworked-staff/a1477675008.html)

5 comments

  1. Yes, there are plenty of private A&Es around the country.

    The main issue is that while in a public hospital they’re not going to run specific tests unless the doctors think it’s necessary, the private ones try to upsell pretty much every test that’s somehow related as it means the hospital makes more money. So make sure you get comprehensive private healthcare that’d cover that expense.

  2. Are they an option for A&E? Definitely, if there is one of the private A&Es close to you, otherwise having private health insurance isn’t for the emergency benefits

  3. I don’t understand the cardiologist thing. She had a 24h Holter monitor, you don’t need a consultant cardiologist to interpret or sign off on that.

  4. So the author had a panic attack, and is upset that other people with psychological disorders and addictions also need treatment and assessment?

    Because she is really hung up on have addicts near her in the article.

    Your “well-paid cardiology consultant” is paid for a specified amount of hours and has limits to hours- like any job, per EU requirements, and thus, is not working on the weekend to review a non-urgent ECG

    This article completely misses the point.

    People need to vote for representatives who will expand consultant and NCHD positions as well as others such as nurses, HCAs, radiologists, etc. so we have a system that is not just a 9-5 M-F healthcare service*

    *9-4 on Fridays

    But you need to pay people more, and hire more- but the general public wants nothing to do with it other than complain when having long waits

  5. Panic attack with normal ix and 24 hour holter to wrap it up as she was probabaly running at a decent ST which resolved. Depends on hospital – some Dublin ones have medical consultants on call for just the day, so she should have been longer than 24 hours.

    However if this was referred to cardio, then yeah, sorry in no way are you getting a consultant to come in to review a non urgent case – they’re there for the stemi calls and that’s it. Tf does a consultant need to sign off a holter for? Something not right there/ communicated wrong

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