Hundreds of scans reviewed at Letterkenny hospital after 37% error rate identified in consultant’s work
by badger-biscuits
Hundreds of scans reviewed at Letterkenny hospital after 37% error rate identified in consultant’s work
by badger-biscuits
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“The locum consultant’s contract was terminated within 10 days as a result of concerns raised about the standard of their work”
Reading this, my question is this. Why is there no accountability at all for these HSE managers? Between this and the [statement from GPs last month](https://www.donegallive.ie/news/letterkenny-milford/1318150/78-donegal-gps-pen-letter-to-health-minister-on-patient-safety-in-letterkenny.html), Letterkenny sounds like an absolute shitshow.
The hospital group (Saolta) have issued the blandest statement ever, saying “The hospital quality and patient safety service has a “clear pathway” for addressing concerns about clinical care, which is currently being followed, the spokesman added. “In the event that any cases of misdiagnosis come to light patients will be contacted with full open disclosure and appropriate arrangements put in place for follow up care, in accordance with national policy.”. <whitenoise>
When you look at the details in the article, a local consultant raised this issue to hospital management and they never bothered to get back to them.
Why are these managers and administrators not held to any kind of accountability whatsoever? They’ve clearly mismanaged the hospital into the ground. They’re unfireable. Seem to be help to no standards or accountability whatsoever. You’ll notice there are no names on the statement, no CEO or hospital manager taking accountability.
When you look up the Saolta group website, it’s quite difficult to even find an org chart to find out who’s in charge. Then you look up the people involved in actual group management. Most of them are HSE flunkies who started off in other roles and then kind of failed upwards. I can’t many of them with masters in management (much less in healthcare management)/MBAs or any kind of professional qualifications whatsoever.
It must be incredibly frustrating for the many many good, kind and conscientious people who do work in the HSE to be lead by these goons. Recently in the UK we’ve seen the first glimmerings of NHS managers being [kinda possibly maybe held to account](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66578698) over those infant murders. It should be like this. These are big jobs, they should have some accountability. If a nurse, a doctor a radiographer or any other healthcare professional who is regulated by a professional body fucks up in any way they’re dragged in front of a fitness to practice inquiry and their names are all over the papers.
I know it’s wishful thinking, but you’d love to see some kind of regulation for hospital managers. Instead we’re just cruising along until the next healthcare scandal, where some C- ‘manager’ from the HSE will issue a bland ‘we’re sorry this happened and are working to address things going forward’ email from their office at 3:55 on a Friday evening before knocking off for the weekend and sleeping very soundly in their beds.
Leos plan to get everyone paying private is working.
Letterkenny doesn’t have the best track record for this. Not a great hospital by all accounts.
How TF did this person ever become a consultant
My half-brother’s da was deteriorating for ages, had no idea what was wrong. Was constantly in and out of Letterkenny hospital for years, with no answers on what the issue was. He was told last week after a new set if scans that he had terminal cancer, and only a month left to live. He died 5 days later.
There’s no way cancer that aggressive just appeared out of nowhere. He wasn’t given a chance.
A man went to the hospital to visit his mother-in-law, who was in serious condition. On the way back the wife, very worried, asks: “So, honey? How’s my mom doing?” He replies: “She looks great! She is in good health! She will still live for many years! Next week she will be released from the hospital and will come and live with us, forever!”
“Wow that’s amazing!” – says the wife – “But this is very strange, dear… yesterday she seemed to be on her deathbed, the doctors said she should have a few days to live!”
“Well, I don’t know how she was yesterday” – he replied – “But today when I arrived at the hospital, the doctor told me that we should prepare for the worst”