The people who were most exposed were the ones working on checkouts in supermarkets. They are on much lower pay and their employers made a fortune during the lockdown. I'm sure many doctors and nurses and care assistants and Porters worked very hard through that period but numbers in A&E were very low, elective surgeries were cancelled and I'm sure there were plenty of other areas where they were their workload dropped during that time.This term 'frontline' is nonsense. What is a frontline worker? You may aswell try to reward all the 'good' workers...
I'm a big fan of the GDPR but it needs to be understood properly and not used as a smokescreen for incompetence and bad practice to hide behind.Shout it from the rooftops! GDPR (inflicted on us by our witless MEPs) has been an absolute disaster that appears to benefit only criminals and faudsters.
I'm a big fan of the GDPR but it needs to be understood properly and not used as a smokescreen for incompetence and bad practice to hide behind.
For the HSE, IMO, it is those who had to wear PPE..This term 'frontline' is nonsense. What is a frontline worker?
What grade of PPE?For the HSE, IMO, it is those who had to wear PPE..
Reading some posts on hear you would think the Left and SF are the only ones to have found the Money tree,What grade of PPE?
I'm deliberately being pedantic as I think this idea of singling out a specific group of workers is a minefield. I can't believe that any politician thought it was a good idea to open that can of worms. It can only be a bad news story. Those that don't 'qualify' will feel very aggrieved and a proportion of those that do 'qualify' will also be miffed at the size/nature of the reward. Lose, lose.
This term 'frontline' is nonsense. What is a frontline worker?
Refuse collection, water and sewage treatment, power generation, packaging for food, logistics administration, IT for all of the above, maintenance and repair for all of the above, mechanics, petrol station employees, homeless services, needle exchanges, drug dealers... the list goes on and on.I would suggest it is those workers who keep working that is critical to maintain social cohesion. Healthcare workers, law enforcement, food producers and providers, transport workers as examples.
Be careful what you wish for.Reading some posts on hear you would think the Left and SF are the only ones to have found the Money tree,
the most dangerous people to leave in charge of the so-called money tree are in government at present, they can't wait to spend every cent they can borrow at the moment,
I hope they don'tBe careful what you wish for.
Some of them have already gotten a lovely medal and a form letter from the president! Now I want a medal too.... and some holidays, and cash to spend on those holidays.....I mean we were all in it together!Can we not just give them all a round of applause or something?
St James's isn't a HSE hospital, and it does have one of the more advanced electronic health records in the Irish public system, but it is still being rolled out, so you will still find fragmented records there across different department..That's a really important point and creates massive duplication of processes within the HSE.
A relative of mine was admitted to St. James's Hospital through one department and then again through a different department about 6 weeks later. He had two different patient numbers, two different sets of records and they had no idea that the other set existed. If that level of duplication exists within one hospital I can only imagine what it's like nationally.
That's the sort of thing that needs to be fixes, along with standardisation of contracts etc. There is literally billions to be saved and thousands of people who could be redeployed to useful roles.
How has GDPR benefited criminals and fraudsters?Shout it from the rooftops! GDPR (inflicted on us by our witless MEPs) has been an absolute disaster that appears to benefit only criminals and faudsters.
Let's see how Graham O'Dwyer's appeal goes...How has GDPR benefited criminals and fraudsters?
So the biggest acute hospital in Ireland isn't controlled or run by the HSE and instead operates its own systems and processes. Is that really the case?St James's isn't a HSE hospital,
Wow, that's amazing and appalling too.it does have one of the more advanced electronic health records in the Irish public system, but it is still being rolled out, so you will still find fragmented records there across different department..
And in terms of organisational structure and general byzantine layers at every turns, which is probably the reason for the electronic health records being delayed and so expensive . And that's the reason for the waste.But generally the Irish publicly funded health system is 20 years behind other health systems in terms of electronic health records
Without restructuring of other areas, yes it will.- paper records are still predominant. It's a necessary investment to make, and will cost well over a billion over 10 to 15 years.
There are billions to be saved, but not with putting electronic reporting systems on top of the existing structures. Anyone in a management position in the health service who doesn't see that is incompetent and is part of the problem.Unfortunately there aren't literally billions to be saved - the evidence is quite poor for economic benefits as a return on investment (no matter what the software vendors tell you), but it is part of the necessary infrastructure for a modern health system, that will leader to safer higher quality and more efficient care (but these efficiencies will typically be found in clinical staff having more time to care, rather than rooting around for scraps of patient information, rather than in cash savings).
Worth reading up on Section 38 organisations to understand how the large Dublin hospitals and Dublin maternity hospitals and some others are publicly funded but not part of HSE. I don’t know anyone who thinks that bringing them under HSE management would improve them!So the biggest acute hospital in Ireland isn't controlled or run by the HSE and instead operates its own systems and processes. Is that really the case?
If so it's both amazing and appalling.
Wow, that's amazing and appalling too.
And in terms of organisational structures, which is probably the reason for the electronic health records and general byzantine layers at every turn. And that's the reason for the waste
Without restructuring of other areas, yes it will.
There are billions to be saved, but not with putting electronic reporting systems on top of the existing structures. Anyone in a management position in the health service who doesn't see that is incompetent and is part of the problem.