The HSE is ‘world class’
Posted on | November 9, 2009 | 23 Comments
Professor Brendan Drumm says the HSE is ‘world class’. He’s right.
World class at cancelling operations in children’s hospitals
World class at telling people who fear they might have cancer that they don’t have cancer and then going ‘Ooops. You know what? You do have cancer! So sorry about that … oh, you’re dead.’
World class at creating a two-tier health system
World class at paying consultants huge wages when some consultants say they don’t have enough work to do and those in similar positions in other countries are paid far less, leaving aside the cost of the support staff each consultant needs
World class at providing fewer beds and increasing wait times. ‘What’s that? Need to see a consultant? They’re all busy until March 2011. Unless you have health insurance then how does next Thursday sound?’
World class at the ‘See how many patients we can sleep on trollies’ championships (they bring home the gold every time).
World class at providing a buffer for an obese buffoon of a Health Minister who has no business being in government and who can wash her hands of every problem and accept no responsibility
World class at being overblown with administration staff yet cooking their books to try and make out as if they aren’t
World class at making the jobs of important staff such as doctors and nurses as difficult as they can possibily make them
World class at trying to close wonderful facilities such as St Lukes in Dublin to create so-called ‘centres of excellence’ when leaving St Lukes open would be excellence and moving all those people to the filthy shithole that is St James’s Hospital is not
World class at paying their Chief Executive a massive bonus for doing what most people would consider to be a pretty terrible job
World class at closing A&E units and hospital wards
World class at dissembling, spinning and duplicity while tackling problems without excuse making or setting up committees to look into the committee which was set up to look into the committee to investigate something that people can’t remember anymore
World class all right.
Third world class.
On reflection, that’s unfair. To third world health services.
Similar posts
Comments
23 Responses to “The HSE is ‘world class’”
Leave a Reply
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
Is this the type of medical program that Obama is trying to force upon Americans? If it is, we’re fucked.
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
No, there’s nothing like it.
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
It’s better than none at all. Over here in the States you get to die instead if you can’t afford to pay a fortune to Universal Wealth Care. Bring it on.
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
lourdes in drogheda is goign to be a centre of excellence for the north east, when people bowels started falling out their holes last week as bugs ran rampant i head mister drum describing the hygeine as world class, up there with the best of them, clearly he’s never been cos it’s like something out of nigeria, it’s filthy, i’ve seen bottles of piss being kicked over on chipped, broken, warped (probably from piss) loose tiles, they place is overcrowded, dirty and smelly (that could just be drogheda though). did drumm come into the job a lying cunt or has it simply turned him?
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
Yes,in fairness the American system is truly horrific but the HSE is a fucking disgrace..
Centers of Excrement morelike..as if putting the word excellence on the end is going to impress someone that dying in a corridor on a trolly from a cut on the hand..
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
I tried to read that article but only got about halfway through when my eyeballs started spinning in my head from the bullshittiness of it all. Send Michael O’Leary in to the HSE for about a week and give the whole place a good dose of organisational colonic irrigation, starting with old fat arse and that fucker drumm.
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
Damn right. Damn, damn right.
If Tyler Durden sold all the soap he could make from Mary Heavy, he’d be a millionaire…
November 9th, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
Drumm is fucking world class all right at telling lies Bertie and fat Mary Harney both said about eight years ago we would have a world class health service Once someone calls something world class in Ireland you can Kiss it goodbye.
November 9th, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
I hate the term ‘Centre of Excellence’. It is a bullshit catchphrase.
Excellence is the hope and the aspiration. You build the centre and staff it and manage if well and hopefully over time and after a number of testing situations it proves itself to be excellent. But it does not start off being excellent.
November 9th, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
You’re right Holemaster. ‘Centre of Excellence’ should just say ‘Proper Hospital’ – clean, well run, adequately staffed, no long waiting times, and no over-crowding.
Like what other real countries have.
By the way, does anyone else think Mary Harney is actually getting bigger? Saw her on the box (widescreen, naturally) recently, wearing a pair of trousers. She looked like Tweedledee…
…had just eaten Tweedledum.
November 9th, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
The HSE is just the liquidator for a sale of the health service. The state does not want to be responsible for providing healthcare anymore. It’ll go the way of telecoms, utilities, etc. It already has with places like the Blackrock Clinic and Mater Private.
Only the poorest will have access to state care. It will be crap and miserable because the State won’t want people to use it. So people will be forced to buy private medical insurance from the same people who own the private hospitals. Just like the States.
That’s where it’s headed and that’s why Harney has not been moved from health because she’s in charge of the project and has to see it through. Some of the wealthiest and best known Irish people are investing in private medical industry.
Medical insurance in the US costs five times what it is here but we’ll catch up within ten years.
November 9th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
But it does seem to make sense to have ‘Centres of Excellence’(or whatever they should be called). It’s not realistic to expect every county to have a top class hospital. Opps, I’m agreeing with the goverment, sorry it won’t happen again
November 9th, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
Twenty – everything you said applies here too.
Most of the people I work with are looking for another job outside the NHS, me included.
November 9th, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
That is scary, HM, and at a time when the US is trying to make health care fairer we’re using it like a money machine for some.
Donna – administrators making life impossible?
November 9th, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
I agree entirely regarding the empty catch-phrase ‘Centres Of Excellence’. It’s simply another jumped up piece of hollow terminology used by the hopelessly inefficient to desribe a terminally inadequate and massively overspending quango. That Drumm was allowed airtime and column space to state that this is a world class system is a crime in itself.
These cunts are broadcasting from another planet.
November 9th, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
Ireland is productising the health industry to generate Centres of Excellence going forward.
It’s a low hanging fruit approach to cost savings.
November 9th, 2009 @ 7:11 pm
Equal healthcare for all paid for by taxes is the ideal solution. But once something becomes a business it never goes back.
Same will happen with prisons and the even the police. Private speed cameras is the first step in that direction. Next will be traffic cops on the street. And they will be cunts.
November 10th, 2009 @ 12:43 am
i’m just back from the pub, after watching liverpool – HA and I just don’t have the energy anymore for nigeria united aka fianna fail public servants bought with bertie cuntslop.
fuck ff and the cunts who voted them in. and i count myself as a green voter.
mary harney swallows ff cum for a living.
sweet dreams.
November 10th, 2009 @ 8:36 am
Yup, HM is on the nail.
The government certainly seems to be selling off its own (or rather our) infrastructures in order to reduce its responsibility for the poorer section of society and also to temporarily help balance its own books. It’s Thatcherite garage sale in an already backward nation.
The concept of privatising public infrastructures always reminds me of the story of the Eskimo fisherman out on a cold day in his wooden boat. He lights a fire to stay warm and keeps pulling off bits of the boat to feed the flames. He manages to keep himself slightly more comfortable for a short time, until the boat starts sinking.
I think the moral of the story was: You can’t have your kayak and heat it.
November 10th, 2009 @ 8:54 am
As much as I fucking despise her, she’s just the figurehead- if it wasn’t her it’d be some other ff gobshite. The real problem is we don’t live in a functioning democracy- it’s only become widely apparent recently the breathtaking extent and depth of incompetence and corruption foisted on the population by the fianna fail criminals, and while being raped with taxes is one thing, mary’s the truly sharp end of the wedge- people are actually dying because of her. She’s nothing less than a murdering cunt with no concept of human decency. And whether it’s by incompetence or ignorance, she’s killing people right now. Yet another scumbag the green party allowed to stay in power- just so they could charge 44c for a plastic bag at the grocery store.
November 10th, 2009 @ 10:25 am
I’m just glad that I haven’t needed to stay in a hospital since i was born.
November 10th, 2009 @ 11:42 am
Tomo, you came this close to calling Harney the ‘thin’ edge of the wedge. But you caught it in time – well done.
November 10th, 2009 @ 11:55 am
“You can’t have your kayak and heat it.”
Ahh ha ha ha ha ha ha