it's only around 2 patients for a clinic of up to 40 patients,
Hi arbitron
Excellent post, so that is just 5% of appointments. I would guess that the private system has a no-show rate of 5% as well.
Do we really have 10m appointments a year in the public health system? It seems a lot, but maybe we do.
Brendan
When I read the press coverage of this issue, I feel sorry for the HSE. No matter what they do, they will be savaged for it. I would say that the temptation is to do nothing. And it probably discourages competent people from applying to work in the HSE.
Hi Odyssey
Are you happy for the current situation where 500,000 people don't show up for appointments?
Do you accept that many of these no longer need these appointments?
Do you accept that many people who no longer need appointments don't bother informing the HSE?
Do you think that the HSE should do something to try to identify the ones who no longer need appoitments?
Relying on post in a country when tens of thousands of letters go missing a week is a joke.
Odyssey
I meant to ask you about this statistic. Have you any evidence for it apart from a once-off occurrence covering 8,000 items in September 2016?
Brendan
Hi Odyssey
So, you are now quoting a 2014 article?
50,000 a week = 2.5m items a year.
That is just nonsense.
If the HSE sent emails to people, you would complain that some people don't check their emails.
The most appropriate way of dealing with this is the post.
But it's much better fun to vent anger at the HSE and none at all at the people who no longer need appointments, but don't have the manners to notify the HSE.
Brendan
But it's much better fun to vent anger at the HSE and none at all at the people who no longer need appointments, but don't have the manners to notify the HSE
In the absence of such figures being readily available, what should we assume is the An Post successful delivery rate?
And why aren't such figures readily available?
What if they are dead? In a nursing home?
What are you suggesting? Dead people can't respond so they should not be taken off the waiting list? Eh, if they are dead, they won't need the appointment and this is exactly what the system is trying to identify. If they are in a nursing home, it is very likely that their post will have been redirected or someone else will be checking their post.
Because based on my own experience, I get all properly addressed letters sent in Ireland, the following day or a day after.
The only evidence I see of non-delivery is people who didn't receive their parking fine or other court proceedings.
An Post does a very good job. It is and should be the basis of any system of notification.
Brendan
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