If you think weâve a shortage of doctors now Wait til SF IRA tax the higher earners
The government boot lickers donât want questions asked.
They donât want accountability.
The leaders are good the leaders are great
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Nenagh and Ennis A & E shut, on the say so of some jobsworth in the Dept. of Health. Continue to force everything into UHL, already the most overcrowded hospital in the country. Genius.
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How much extra per week will a person on 200k say pay under sf tax proposals?
It seems to have plateaued from 2015 on. Irelands population has increased almost half a million in that time frame. People are living longer. Even since 2015 life expectancy has gone up 1.25 years. The problem is multi-factorial. But we are not alone as a country in experiencing these problems but with a health spend one of the highest in OECD you would expect that we should be better equipped than most to manage it.
anti changes to stop climate change too
Population increases will never be questioned as a cause of strain on services. The sacred cow. Answer will always be moar taxes, moar everything.
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6-10k extra tax a year depending on where they land on it
I think GPâs are not living up to their end of the bargain either. They had it cushy enough during Covid with phone consultations and the like. Some of their default response now is to go to A&E.
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Doctors want to close Navan ED as it will save lives to have patients treated in hospitals with better equipment & facilities
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Once they eventually get in the door.
We need to make bigger doors in hospitals.
For as long as I remember healthcare in Ireland has been rationed at point of entry. A and E is almost set up to discourage attendance
Once you get in you generally get the finest care.
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Aye. Loons in the Office of National Statistics are flat out making up mad stuff.
The fact is it wouldnât matter what information you etc were presented with. Stupidity chose you and youâll defend her choice
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Sister in-law is an IC nurse and she is very much of this view.
Sister in law was feeling unwell the other night. Rang Shannon Doc (the most useless shower going).
Go into A & E is their standard response.
Obviously a huge problem but doesnât really affect the trolley crisis as those people need to be admitted to hospital, A+E still operates on a priority basis right?
A shit show but it appears (anecdotally if nothing else) that weâre dealing with a big upsurge in respiratory problems leading to hospitalisation,
How much extra capacity did they put in while we were flattening the curve?
Health services are closed/reduced over Christmas so staff get Christmas leave/holidays.
They are entitled to time off but itâs always ignored in the debate at this time of year.
If supermarkets closed for two weeks over Christmas youâd see queues when they reopened.
They told her she needed to go into A & E to get her bloods taken. When she said itâs fairly busy in there at the moment, she could be hours and hours waiting to be seen and it mightnât be the best course of action, she was met with a response of âare you refusing medical treatment?â
She went away home, went to the GP the next morning, got a prescription and was sorted.
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Weâve come to expect people on trolleys at this time of year, our hospitals are a bit of a joke, but this is unprecedented, itâs a huge increase in any daily figure weâve seen before,
My point originally is that itâs just not accurate or helpful to say âwe always have a spike in illness in winter or after Christmas or whateverâ
There is unquestionably a crisis in respiratory illness at the moment, and as ever a crisis in one department spills over
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