Health Budget 2020 is misdirected and fails to adequately provide for the task of reducing the record number of acutely ill inpatients being treated on trolleys. It does not resource our public hospital and mental health services to provide timely high quality care to the one million or so people on waiting lists, according to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA).
Characterised by IHCA President Dr. Donal O’Hanlon as a ‘missed opportunity’ for patients and those who depend on public hospitals for essential care. Hospital consultants have expressed their disappointment in the Government’s failure to include essential provisions in the Budget to reduce patient waiting lists. The consultant recruitment and retention crisis is driving the numbers waiting to ever increasing levels.
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