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That's a big statement. What do you mean?Our Health Service has deliberately been run down for years.
The ones on the old contract are. The new ones are not.Our Medical Consultants are amongst the top paid people in the world.
We have more nurses per head of population than anywhere else in Europe (twice as many as France). The problem isn't a shortage of money, it's where and how it's being spent. The nurses I know that have qualified in the last few years couldn't get jobs here and are working in England and Canada. Are you sure that were being recruited at the airport?Our nurses can make money working abroad and have much better conditions, access to courses etc. Many nurses returning to Ireland for Christmas were openenly headhunted in our airports this Christmas.
I'd like to see that done for the entire health service.I wonder, is it time to consider out-sourcing A&E to the private sector where the HSE tenders out to competing hospitals, or simply just pay the 100 euro, or whatever the cost is?
I'd like to see that done for the entire health service.
We all know that Irelands GDP is distorted and is a bad measure of economic activity so using it as a measure in this discussion is disingenuous, to say the least. The only country in Europe with a bigger disparity between GDP and GNP is Luxembourg...Leper , I would tend to agree with you.
The OECD report Health at a glance : Europe 2014 shows that on health spending per capita basis we are 9th overall & on a spending per GDP basis we are 16th & bottom of all the Western European Countries with the exception of Luxembourg.
Have a look at this report; http://www.oecd.org/eco/growth/46508904.pdf .It would appear that it is becoming increasingly obvious that it proving extremely difficult to recruit front line staff , hopefully the Labour Court recommendations for improved terms & conditions for junior doctors will be followed by improved terms & conditions for all front line staff.
I must admit that I was most surprised to garner from the above mentioned OECD report that we are ranked 9th overall in terms of health spending per capita in Europe , comments elsewhere would have led me to believe that Ireland was way ahead of the pack in this regard - is there any basis for such an assertion ?
Have a look at this report; http://www.oecd.org/eco/growth/46508904.pdf .
It is also interesting that we spend such a comparatively high proportion of the total budget on wages.
Someone might like to quote this post as Deiseblue has me on his ignore list because I don't like unions.
They tell you.How do you know if you're on someone's ignore list btw?
I'd like to see that done for the entire health service.
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