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2008 Euro Health Consumer Index, a mixed bag of results

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  • 15-11-2008 6:29am
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    nesf
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    Irish Times article: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1114/1226408634167.html

    The pdf of the report proper: http://www.healthpowerhouse.com/files/2008-EHCI/EHCI-2008-report.pdf

    Just to add more focus and precision to the "our Health Service is crap" brigade. According to this report, we're doing quite well in some areas and quite poorly in others with a few areas being either very good or bad. In short, we rank 15th out of 31 European countries with our best score coming in patient outcomes (possibly the most important score?) and worst in patient rights and information (if you ignore the e-health category where we along with nearly every other European country score extremely badly).

    The synopsis for Ireland is:
    The Health Service Executive reform seems to have started improving
    a historically dismal performance. The severe waiting list problems
    seem to be improving, and so are Outcomes. However, patient
    organisations do not seem to have discovered this.

    Which would seem to go against the standard off-the-cuff, the HSE is crap/has made things worse/etc Zeitgeist that pervades this forum. Specifically studies like this one shed light on where the major faults and problems are and highlight countries whose approach we might emulate in those areas.


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    donegalfella wrote: »
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    donegalfella wrote: »
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    Only took her ten years to get things to start improving? Lets leave her in government for 100 years, that'll sort it right?


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    Macha
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    brianthebard wrote: »
    Only took her ten years to get things to start improving? Lets leave her in government for 100 years, that'll sort it right?

    True. I think what's frustrating for a lot of people is the slowness of the reform. Plus the fact that the years of ridiculous plenty are over and things will probably move even slower now that the credit crunch has arrived.


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    djpbarry
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    taconnol wrote: »
    True. I think what's frustrating for a lot of people is the slowness of the reform.
    Nevertheless, the perspective provided by such reports is important. Perhaps healthcare in this country is not as diabolical as many would have us believe.


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