How would you sort out Hospital A&E Crisis - Long waiting times- trolleys in corridor's etc

That's nice for them, in 2024 if you live in my catchment area your records are paper, and you'll be bringing your green file of notes with you for every appointment.

You see this a lot in IT, were guys come in with the most complicated of solutions to some problems and then when implemented can cause more of a headache that the original issue because it is so complex that it makes it harder to fix and then you fix one thing and it has a knock on effect on others. Most of the best solutions are simple ones, easy to implement and fix which is just as important.

Not saying the complex are not needed, they are but there is a time and place for them. The problem within in the health service is the amount of organisations and people with skin in the game that would maybe see their sphere if influence diminish or lose out on money and they can and have put blockers to progress in the way. The best chance of reforming the health service was back when the HSE was being formed and the health boards were being moved under the one roof, then was time streamline things and put in proper practices but FF got scared and decided there would be no redundancies or changes and now we have ideas of being mooted of splitting the HSE back up.

Had the same experience in the Rotunda a few years ago. My wife thought she was having a miscarriage as she thought she was hemorrhaging so off we went to the Rotunda and we were told that there was a wait because the Dr on Duty was dealing with a problem on the ward. This was the only Dr on duty.

A & E departments need to stop accepting drunks . When Gardai find drunks they call for an emergency ambulance. In most other countries the drunk is taken into custody . The ambulance and health services are too overstretched to be doing the work of Gardai who can’t be bothered to deal with drunks and more importantly sort out the pubs who literally serve people until they fall over on a regular basis

A large part of that is GPs not doing their job properly and or they fear being sued, they send too many to A&E an amount who attend A&E should be stopped for attending and directed elsewhere, but the thing is where should they be directed?

On the other hand the Christmas before last I heard of someone who would not go to A&E because of what they were hearing about overcrowding now they could have gotten even more seriously ill or even died but the doctor or their family could not persuade them to go a big factor was scaremongering by the media and ridiculous message by the HSE for people not to attend A&E

There's actually several injury units around the country for sports related injuries such as broken bones.

Most are open 8am to 8pm even on weekends.

https://www2.hse.ie/services/injury-units/?service_area=Roscommon

Unfortunately, my experience there a few months ago was on par with the regular A&E minus the drunks. Oversubscribed by genuine people with broken bones, sprains etc, but one radiographer who took an hour lunch break with no cover, and 2 doctors running it. This was in Cork city. Total wait to exit was 6 hours. Again, totally understaffed and mismanaged imo.

Not being smart here but have you been to a local TD for anything, they don’t want to know about doing anything and all they want is to be on a committee for something or other in the dail, we went to the local TD 4 years ago to see could anything be done for our sick daughter on the waiting list for Crumlin. He said he would help and look into it straight away and come back to us and would definitely help as my father was in the local cuman with his father years ago, met him at a funeral two months ago and he came over due the company I was in and started talking and I thanked he him for all the help he didn’t give with our daughter and that she was still going through the hospital, he was trying to all apologetic and he had wanted to come back to us but, but,but, he couldn’t Evan remember which hospital. He went off discussed when one of the lads said to him he was a waste of space. TD is only out for one thing and that is himself and the gravy train.

jebus, where you do even begin with this!

yup, outsourcing elderly care has failed....

no all such properties have been converted to such....

yup, expansion or lack of, capacity within our health care system has failed....

use of private hospital worked reasonable well during covid, so no reason why it could again...

just cause you ve paid extra for health care, doesnt mean you should have greater access to such care over others, this could be deemed being 'entitled'....

...maybe, just maybe, its actually the actions of the privatisation of elements of our health care system has in fact actually undermined our ability to provide adequate public care, maybe....

....most citizens dont actually have a medical card....

...increasing population has clearly added to this, as all humans need health care, so....

...maybe our health care system isnt adequately reacting to his actual needs, in particular his psychological needs, i.e. addiction and mental health issues etc...

Well during Covid elective procedures were cancelled, that’s another reason for the huge backlog. Buying private beds is only possible if the private hospital agrees, which they have little incentive to do. They got more money from private procedures. It’s always been like this, hip replacements can take years for public versus months for private but it’s an incentive to get health insurance.