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Hanly NIMBY

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  • 17-11-2003 7:24pm
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    There seems to be a movement now against the Hanly report implementation. First a Senior Minister came out and said he would not support the down-grading of his local Nenagh hospital at a public meeting on monday night. Then 15,000 people protested in Ennis to stop their local hospital from being down-graded. Now while there is a lot more to the Hanly report, the local dimension to it's implementation, there isn't much chance of it going ahead of the local elections in june. Can you imagine what would happen to government pary councillors if it did? A 'consultation' process is being talked about for the hanly reforms now, but they already did consultations for the creation of the Hanly report. Is the Hanly report in trouble?


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    I think that sight of government and opposition TDs protesting aganist the Hanley report is regrettable.

    If they are aganist the report - let them put forward alternatives.

    We are living in a small country with a small population.

    It should not be beyond us to get a well organised and efficent health system.

    If the Department of Health is not up to the job - bring in a task force to implement change.


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    It's unfortunate that there is a tendency to zoom in on an isolated section of a plan like this, and oppose it out of context. One of the report's authors was interviewed on the RTE news this evening, and he made what seemed to me to be a coherent case for the implementation of the plan over a ten-year period - including getting all the prerequisites (proper ambulance services etc) in place before any hospitals had services taken away from them.

    "Downgrading" sounds like a classic spin-word; I doubt it was used in the report (haven't read it, so can't be sure).


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    originally posted by oscarbravo
    "Downgrading" sounds like a classic spin-word; I doubt it was used in the report (haven't read it, so can't be sure).
    It would seem that both sides are trying to out-spin each other.

    There has been quite a politial fallout from it in the last few days.

    Fianna Fail, in particualr are begining to feel the heat locally. On questions and answers last night someone mentioned a similar health reform report published forty years ago. Apparently the politicians at the time stopped it from happening, and with such opposition to it already, it is hard to see it being implemented, no matter how worthwhile it's recommendations are. The Eu manpower directive also has to be considered. Reducing junior doctor working hours will need to find another way of doing the extra work.


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