Wait until there’s 9000 cannabis users on average per year who will be forwarded to the mental health services soon
What a shitshow. Getting older now so I’ll be hanging onto the health insurance. I don’t care what it costs.
What we need is more taxes and more employees, especially admin staff.
Isn’t there a budget deficit? Spend that money on healthcare systems
I don’t think funding is so much the issue with the health as ineffective governance structures are. There is chronic overspending in some areas while other areas are screaming for proper funding, and because its health saying no to more spending on it is politically risky.
The budget in 2016 was about €14 billion. Unless there has been 50% inflation since then, something has clearly gone awry.
The TD is correct. Ballsy to be looking for more money instead of cutting costs
>Gloster said only a third of the projected overspend this year was down to costs the HSE could control, with the remainder due to soaring medical inflation and the implications of an ageing population.
What a load of bollocks. The population didn’t suddenly age over the last few years. Not to be insensitive but in fact a good chunk of the older most expensive cohort died in the COVID pandemic. And much of the soaring medical inflation is due to their crappy procurement policies.
Ballsy (adj.): having the ability to make a balls of things.
we really need a full audit of the hse and cut the fat, there is way too much bureacracy and not enough being done where it is needed.
Just keep chucking money into a very badly run health service, TDs
Sack the bottom performing 5%.
There has been such an outcry about the overspend with the children’s hospital (rightly so), with the overall cost now standing at 2.2 Billion, but at least at the end of it we will have a badly needed piece of infrastructure which will benefit generations of children in the future. And yet here we are with more than half the cost of the hospital passed off as a one year deficit. One year. The lunatics are running the asylum.
We have the third largest spend on health in the EU, as a percentage of national income, after Germany and France. We do not have a German or French quality healthcare system.
To be fair to top level management, the HSE is the largest employer in the state, and they simply cannot ever touch staff costs in any meaningful way.
All that bluster about HSE management and bureaucracy? Jobs for life, mate. And if you tried to change that, unions would go ape and politicians would lose out in elections.
Have they considered selling the buildings : -p
I’ve worked in the HSE briefly in a few sites.
One big problem is no one gets fired.
In one department, the biggest cunts or the worst patient facing staff (both categories who get a load of complaints) get promoted to positions where they won’t get complaints, and in two cases I know of positions were made up for these people.
The amount of admin/management staff in non patient facing roles is phenomenal. Now with such a service (especially with no integrated electronic system for records) more than the normal amount of Clerical staff will be needed.
But to have a “manager” who’s only job is to come in and print labels for patient charts? And them earning high 5 figure salaries.
I love my job but I hate the system. And the system doesn’t want to change.
I’d love to watch it come crumbling down and see all these overpaid cunts out on their arses (in a way that didn’t impact patients or put people at risk).
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Wait until there’s 9000 cannabis users on average per year who will be forwarded to the mental health services soon
What a shitshow. Getting older now so I’ll be hanging onto the health insurance. I don’t care what it costs.
What we need is more taxes and more employees, especially admin staff.
Isn’t there a budget deficit? Spend that money on healthcare systems
I don’t think funding is so much the issue with the health as ineffective governance structures are. There is chronic overspending in some areas while other areas are screaming for proper funding, and because its health saying no to more spending on it is politically risky.
The budget in 2016 was about €14 billion. Unless there has been 50% inflation since then, something has clearly gone awry.
The TD is correct. Ballsy to be looking for more money instead of cutting costs
>Gloster said only a third of the projected overspend this year was down to costs the HSE could control, with the remainder due to soaring medical inflation and the implications of an ageing population.
What a load of bollocks. The population didn’t suddenly age over the last few years. Not to be insensitive but in fact a good chunk of the older most expensive cohort died in the COVID pandemic. And much of the soaring medical inflation is due to their crappy procurement policies.
Ballsy (adj.): having the ability to make a balls of things.
we really need a full audit of the hse and cut the fat, there is way too much bureacracy and not enough being done where it is needed.
Just keep chucking money into a very badly run health service, TDs
Sack the bottom performing 5%.
There has been such an outcry about the overspend with the children’s hospital (rightly so), with the overall cost now standing at 2.2 Billion, but at least at the end of it we will have a badly needed piece of infrastructure which will benefit generations of children in the future. And yet here we are with more than half the cost of the hospital passed off as a one year deficit. One year. The lunatics are running the asylum.
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/parliamentaryBudgetOffice/2023/2023-08-15_health-spending-in-ireland-2015-2023_en.pdf
We have the third largest spend on health in the EU, as a percentage of national income, after Germany and France. We do not have a German or French quality healthcare system.
To be fair to top level management, the HSE is the largest employer in the state, and they simply cannot ever touch staff costs in any meaningful way.
All that bluster about HSE management and bureaucracy? Jobs for life, mate. And if you tried to change that, unions would go ape and politicians would lose out in elections.
Have they considered selling the buildings : -p
I’ve worked in the HSE briefly in a few sites.
One big problem is no one gets fired.
In one department, the biggest cunts or the worst patient facing staff (both categories who get a load of complaints) get promoted to positions where they won’t get complaints, and in two cases I know of positions were made up for these people.
The amount of admin/management staff in non patient facing roles is phenomenal. Now with such a service (especially with no integrated electronic system for records) more than the normal amount of Clerical staff will be needed.
But to have a “manager” who’s only job is to come in and print labels for patient charts? And them earning high 5 figure salaries.
I love my job but I hate the system. And the system doesn’t want to change.
I’d love to watch it come crumbling down and see all these overpaid cunts out on their arses (in a way that didn’t impact patients or put people at risk).