My exact initial reaction! I thought I was having an out of body experience, thinking to myself “I didn’t get the memo, and as the nurse of anaesthetics, you’d have thought I’d have at least heard of it”, then it clicked… It’s not new. We’ve been using it for ages.
Sure let him have his moment I suppose!

The best way to ensure a good health service in Ireland. Move to the Min of Health’s constituency. Make sure you don’t live in the North-West or South-East because it appears to be govt policy to let you die if you live in either region.

Obviously you missed his predecessor !!

Steve
This system is in Australia but varies from Hospital to Hospital. It is certainly not a National System which the HSE has now introduced and I think everyone has missed the obvious…..this is now a system for the Standard Evaluation of Healthcare Professionals in the event of an unexpected death.
No place to hide anymore!

There wasn’t a place to hide Richard initially, shocker alert, all nurses and doctors are registered professionals. We are fully accountable for all our actions, this won’t change that.
This isn’t about deaths, it’s about evaluating the severity of condition, which we have also been doing since forever and making sure that said condition is dealt with in an appropriate manner. This is a universal system (which has been in place here since at least June of last year).
This “launch” is designed to make nurses and doctors here look like thick, ignorant idiots, making the main man look like he is improving quality of care, which he is not.

James
Im pleased to know that your Hospital has the System in place since last year but if you check I beleive you will find that it was not a National System as now mandated by the HSE and I believe the Minister is one hundred per cent correct in asserting his belief that Ireland is the only country where such is mandatory in every single Acute Hospital.
Perhaps you will tell us what the issue is with the DoH/HSE Press Release today. Are you suggesting that your employers are misrepresenting facts or lying as I don’t see where the gain might be.

Richard, while it is apparently only now HSE mandated, it has been in place in the majority of hospitals (if not all) since at least last June.
The “launch” is a vendetta against staff, primarily nurses and doctors, and was released at a very opportune time so as to make nurses and doctors look like we are totally and utterly at fault for poor patient safety, which is most certainly not the case. The risks to patient safety are both systemic and personal, whether its lack of doctors and nurses, lack of hygiene facilities (sinks), lack of isolation rooms, waiting lists, etc, etc, etc.
The above are not the fault of us, the workers, but of poor management.