Ireland's health service

[caoimhaoin]

Lack of empathy and pure fear and/or selfishness

[artfoley]

@glasagusban

There seem to be a number of policies in operation in the health sector that run counter to all evidence or research.

I can’t get over the cervical smear scandal. How could any public servant be in possession of that information and not act on it. It’s insane

It’s an ingrained thing. It’s the organisation ahead of the citizen every time.

This goes back years

[glasagusban]

Absolutely. This Kev. It’s not an individual thing, a good number of people clearly didn’t act, this is organisational culture. It’s insane.

[artfoley]

@glasagusban

Absolutely. This Kev. It’s not an individual thing, a good number of people clearly didn’t act, this is organisational culture. It’s insane

All I can say is thank fuck I’m not in health or justice. The levels of hive mind in there must be horrific and it’s coming through into spin off agencies such as CFA etc.

Imagine you have to pass a law to make it mandatory to disose fuckups.

No fucking accountability

[gilgamboa]

This Vicky Phelan woman is some hero tbf. HSE tried to force her to sign confidentiality agreement and she told them to get bent.

Whole story would have been buried except for one woman with a backbone and morals

[artfoley]

@gilgamboa

This Vicky Phelan woman is some hero tbf. HSE tried to force her to sign confidentiality agreement and she told them to get bent.

Whole story would have been buried except for one woman with a backbone and morals

The SCA should be barred from getting confidentiality clauses unless specifically asked for by the plaintiff and if ruled by a judge.

[iron_mike]

Meanwhile back at the ranch the local office supplies rep is just after doing a deal for 25 rexel shredders while anyone with any backbone in government would have the place crawling with guards at this stage.

[artfoley]

@iron_mike

while anyone with any backbone in government would have the place crawling with guards at this stage

The cops are so bent they’d be doing the shredding!

[tazdedub]

And to think that was the first thing they wanted her to sign. No apologies or anything like that, just sign the confidentiality agreement and then we can begin.

Time these agencies realise they are there to serve the people of the state.

[artfoley]

@tazdedub

Time these agencies realise they are there to serve the people of the state

Wait til I get sec gen!

[tazdedub]

We’re fucked then.

[iron_mike]

[artfoley]

Just watching this Rhona omahony cunt on PT now. You’d think her hospital was a shining beacon of women’s healthcare which allows her to get a media profile.

You’d never know by her that this shit happens on her watch.

Doctors had to get ice from pub after woman's blood vessel cut

[KinvarasPassion]

@artfoley

You’d never know by her that this shit happens on her watch.

Seen a similar issue in another hospital regarding the lack of ice when needed. The excuse given was that ice wasn’t stored on site for ‘infection control reasons’.

[artfoley]

@KinvarasPassion

Seen a similar issue in another hospital regarding the lack of ice when needed. The excuse given was that ice wasn’t stored on site for ‘infection control reasons’.

But irrespective of the ice there’s serious issues in holles St and when HIQA went in to investigate, she tried to JR them.

[corner_back]

I generally can’t abide political correspondents but Gavin Reilly on TV3 is very good at his job. Puts his RTE contemporaries in the shade.

[flattythehurdler]

Rona o mahoney is far too interested in her public profile.
In any case, Ireland is bizarre. It is individually the kindest place you’d ever go to, but institutionally the diametric opposite. It’s hard to fathom.

[caoimhaoin]

The kindness is a cover and we Andre not any particularly kinder than most other nations.

[Spidey]

Another 1,500 cases in the mixer. HSE running for the hills.

[maroonandwhite]

@caoimhaoin

The kindness is a cover and we Andre not any particularly kinder than most other nations.

Yep. The level of true civic mindedness is appalling. Rubbish strewn everwhere, homelessness, ridiculous government services staffed in the main by people solely looking after their own interests. Greeks revolted, oirish people shrugged when hospitals, police numbers, services were gutted. But irish people are great craic (when mildly drunk)