Outlining those resources Mr Donnelly said the Government was committed to increasing consultant numbers, saying the ratio of consultants to population in Ireland was far too low. “My view is that we need to increase our numbers by around 2,000″ he said.his preference for the creation of a new consultants’ contract “has always been to do so with the agreement of the IHCA, that is still the case”.
Referring to the proposed introduction of universal healthcare he said “we need to do a number of things: These were to continue to navigate our way through Covid. To continue to cut the costs of healthcare to patients and to continue to expand clinical services like women’s healthcare, cancer care, dementia, stroke, trauma, diabetes and bariatrics.”
Mr Donnelly said last Tuesday’s budget allocated more than €23 billion towards these goals as part of Ireland’s health and social care services. “This is the highest allocation of funding to the health service in the history of the state, and the largest allocation of any Government department. It highlights my commitment, and that of the Government, to our health service”.
Wow, it really ages a person when they sell their soul.
Watch not what they say but what they do
Then why are operations being cancelled because of lack of beds for patients after operations