I think the way things are at the minute if did myself some relatively minor damage, needing an x-ray or stitches or whatever Iâd drive to one of the VHI swiftcare clinics rather than subject myself to the UHL.
The most remarkable thing about the recent crisis is it somehow managed to dislodge the UHL from the top of the patients on trolleyâs list for a day. A league theyâve dominated in a way Celtic could only dream about in recent times. Theyâve reclaimed top spot from St. Lukes since though.
VHI clinics now limited to VHI customers only. A private version has opened in cork to cater for non VHI customers
Just been to the doctor this morning with a chest. No way would i ever go to A&E unless i was on my last legs
Youâre some stupid cunt.
Informative. I knew the VHI had shut up shop alright, smart move as itâs a great service.
My Mam felt sick there before Christmas and I called NowDoc. She was actually so sick that she couldnât face the drive (she doesnât drive anyway but I would have brought her over to Carrick).
It was a Saturday night around 6pm. In fairness to them they arrived at our house around 9.30 which was to be expected considering that there is only one doctor on for the surgery and house calls.
He was very pleasant and thorough in his examination. He took notes which he said would appear on her GPâs file on Monday morning and it did.
The problem is that the fucking GP(s) are a disaster. The reason my Mam had felt sick was that she was just out of hospital with a bout of pneumonia which one of the clowns had completely failed to diagnose.
Huge opening there for private operators. Its a company called affidea in cork who already had private scanning clinic.
A few years back I was in agony with an abdominal pain, went to GP on the Thursday she diagnosed infection and sent me home with antibiotics with instructions to present myself at local A and E if pain got worse. By Friday I was delerious with the infection and passing what could only be described as Lucozade, so orange was its hue. The wife did a dip test on my urine and the figures were off the scale.
I thought about going to the local a and E, but knew that there would be nobody to see me until the following Monday. So I stayed at home,got through the weekend and on Monday morning we went to the Hermitage in Lucan. Once I paid the âŹ295 excess I was seen within 40 minutes, was in a semi private room within an hour, and had an aspiration done that night at 20 to 10. I spent a week on a drip, every kind of penicillin possible, and had a surgeon from Saint Jameses as my consultant, he check on me every night at 10 PM.
If you have private cover, use it. You will be seen quicker. You will spend less time in hospital. I went back to my GP the following week after discharge, and she said if I had gone to the local hospital my infection would have ended up worse as nobody wouldâve seen me on a trolley for three days and I would have ended up being transferred to an isolation ward elsewhere . The problem is availability of consultants, especially after 4 PM.
The only problem I had with the care I got in the private hospital, was that I was under a surgical specialist and not medical specialist.
He was a surgeon and if I had been under a medical doctor they might have diagnosed me properly as to what was wrong and I couldâve avoided a lot more care in the public system later on. Iâm well today thank God but that was the start of a large learning process about how healthcare operates in this country.
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No fuck no bud
Working from home. RTEĚ radio 1 on. Health service closes down at 5pm on a Friday. Seems to be run for benefit of staff.
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Iâd agree with this to a point. The exact same thing happened last year as the flu started around the time most hospitals were working with a skeleton staff due to Christmas holidays. The flu is due to peak in two weeks but I predict trolley numbers wonât be as high as everybody will be back at work.
Career structure is ridiculous too though. They canât get nursing or medical staff as the conditions are way better abroad. Nurses pay, in particular, is appalling. From the outside it appears that the consultants have way too much power and can resist any attempt at change. Theyâd have an attitude that they worked all the shitty hours and long shifts way back so why shouldnât younger doctors do it now. Harvey Weinstein isnât a patch on some of the boys in Dublin hospitals allegedly wrt the way they treat their trainee docs.
The upper echelons of the HSE are cunts too, completely reliant and very effective at spin with very little ability or apparent willingness to improve matters.
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I see there was another big pay out today from the health service, this time âŹ5 million for negligence in the birth of a child at Sligo general hospital.
There seems to be a case like this every day on the news, where ordinary people have to fight tooth and nail to get compensation where something catastrophic has happened them or their children owing to negligence from medical practitioners. Iâd love to know the figure the government has to pay out every year just in compensation payments. Itâs absolutely staggering the frequency with which this stuff is happening.
Additionally do we know if anything happens to the staff who were at fault in these cases? Example termination of employment with no option to work in health in this country again. Does that happen in this great little country of Oireland or are these people allowed to carry on as normal?
Iâd assume negligent doctors are struck off ,the same as anywhere in the world
Do we know that for sure or is that a guess?
This is a country where stuff is neatly brushed under the carpet and you get the old nod and a wink. Call me cynical but I wonât just assume there are strong repurcussions for incompetent health staff who have ruined peopleâs lives.
A guess
Lots of these cases are genuine errors made by doctors doing their best. In most of these cases the doctors would prefer to hold their hands up and accept responsibility and move on with their lives as well Id imagine. But afaik there is a blanket policy in HSE not to accept responsibility
Its a disgraceful situation really
down to SCA. Itâs ridiculous given the amount of studies that show an early admission and apology dramatically drops risk and cost of litigation
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Is it credible that the HSE chief exec has no knowledge then of any issue arising which is being handed by the SCA?
A drop in the ocean to the payouts and costs of this cervical smear test scandal.
Fucking health officials fighting with one another as to whose responsibility it is to tell the paitient and then not telling them.
The health management in this country is a joke. Needs a clear out.
What does SCA mean?