Major concerns on mid-west revamp plan
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| Total Messages: 5 Latest post on: 23/01/2009 13:08 Page 1 of 1 Latest Post |
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gar
 Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 10 # 5 Posted: 23/01/2009 13:08 limerick a&e is already not able to cope with patients waiting overnight for a bed. |
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concerned
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 5 # 4 Posted: 18/01/2009 16:13 Write about having “the cart pulling the horse” or whatever. It vital to get emergency treatment as soon as possible and stabilize the patient, what’s that about “the golden hour”. That’s why A&E and ICU facilities must remain local. The road to from Ennis to Limerick will be full of lost patients who died needlessly as the result of bad planning and penny pinching. More fundamental questions should be asked on the need for the replacement of Ennis General Hospital or an extensive refurbishment. It is well established fact as it has the highest mortality rate in it’s a reservoir of infectious diseases such as c-diff, MRSA and other digestive track infections. As I see it now Ennis record in patient deaths associated with the above illnesses is a national scandal. It seems A&E and the ICU save life to have it extinguished in the wards. The reason for this is there is no proper isolation units, en-suites and proper plans to protect the vulnerable patient such as elderly and immune compromised. What is needed is the A&E and ICU to be supported with more recourse and enlarged. The rest of the hospital shut down until it is fit for proper patient care. |
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Anonymous
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,060 # 3 Posted: 16/01/2009 08:45 It seems to me that this is less about developing centres of excellence and far more to do with keepign costs down. GPs won't pick up the slack for A&E being closed becuase they themselves are closed out of hours. Anonymous you may well have a point about the aim of this being related to provate hospitals. The Amerianisation of the health system is totally wrong and far removed from a social systemoif medicine and healthcare which is in place in our (civilised) EU neighbours. |
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BJ
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 20 # 2 Posted: 15/01/2009 17:10 Limerick A & E cannot cope with it's own problems at the moment, the waiting time is scandalous. I do not believe the statistics given out by the HSE, I believe that these figures are taken over an annual basis and do not give accurate information. The HSE really needs to get it's act together, and if they cannot then they should resign and bring in people who are able to manage the system, which they clearly incapable of doing. This mess with the HSE has been ongoing for years, even in good times it was bad. This is just the most ridiculous suggestion to date. |
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anonymous
 Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 996 # 1 Posted: 15/01/2009 16:49 The HSE are not implementing the Teamwork recommendations in the Mid-West but their own version of it. They are going to cherry pick what suits their purpose and run with that. Anything that they think will be cost neutral will go ahead and they live in hope that the GPs and the paramedics will take up the slack. This is the Hanly Report in action - 12 Regional Hospitals providing all acute care and the other hospitals downgraded to day-hospitals or step down units. Many of the Teamwork recommendations will not be fulfilled, as is happenign in the North East, but the HSE will forge ahead regardless. As for the 'quality driven and safe servcies' - forget it. This is not going to provide it but cause even greater problems and cause greater risks for patients. This is all about creating a market in Limerick for the private for-profit co-located hospital to keep the investors happy and then, with the public system decimated we, the tax-payers, will pay for public patients to be treated in the Private facility, while the HSE continue to spend their huge budget on conferences and swanning about. In the meantime the Private health Insurance will be so costly that only about 20% of thepopulation will be able to afford it thereby increasing the numbers requiring the Public, aka Private at tax-payers expense, treatment. This must be fought tooth and nail. |
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