Such a difference he said, had serious implications for planning the delivery of universal healthcare and he said he called for a review of the strategy, based on population change.
IHCA President, Professor Rob Landers, said that “demand has long since outstripped supply when it comes to acute hospital care” and called for a “laser-like focus” on the two things every patient relies upon most — beds and Consultants. Prof Landers said ‘’we do everything we can and should do to help, often in partnership with our health and social care colleagues. Because that is what we do. But the sustainability of such realities — for patients and us as the ones they depend upon are in focus like never before. The risk of blowout is crystallising.’’
Thank the genius Reid for that, plus the economic cost to the HSE of his failed plan to the contrary,
Consultants have no interest in making Slaintecare work.