“No one will wait more than a year” !!! Unbelievable – I hope they aren’t ill.

I see he’s taken to doing stand up comedy too

A year!
You could be dead and buried, had an aniversary at that rate!
With all the money been thrown at the health service, question must be asked ‘where is it going’.

I don’t know what’s worse here, what he’s doing to the Health Service in Ireland or that he’s beginning to believe his own bullshit.
I know in my local hospital they have lost 25% of their lab staff, this WILL have an effect Minister, or do you seriously think they were unneeded? They are loosing a similar amount of radiographers too and with waiting times for X-Rays currently at 3 months this is expected to double, you can just imagine the suffering this will cause, by the time people will get their X-Rays it’ll be too late. It’s the same story in every disipline I spoke to in the hospital. Their A&E Department is the busiest in the country, so busy that they had to beg recently to be allowed to come off line, they had so many chronically ill patients urgently in need of treatment but no beds for them, nowhere to treat them. At one stage patients were being treated on the floor, patients lives were put at risk and I understand staff begged for their patients, they wanted to close the A&E. For political reasons, they were told under no circumstances could it close. They got lucky, nobody died. This time. Luck won’t last, this fool will cause the deaths of people. Nobody seriously believes that this time next year everything will be alright with our Health Service, we all know, everyone in the country, that this time next year it will be a lot worse unless there is a major intervention. It starts with getting rid of James Rielly.

Key phrase here is “Nobody will wait more than a year for there first apointment”, not nobody will wait more than a year, your first out patient apointment can be nothing more than seeing the hospital Doctor for him to do nothing but confirm what you probably already know from your GP who referred you.

Its a disgrace, I waited 9 months for a outpatient apointment because of a ingrowing toe-nail, my GP told me it would have to be removed. 9 months later a Doctor in the out-patient department told me the exact same thing and then put me on another waiting list..tbh the thoughts of a bottle of whiskey and a pliers did spring to mind, that was 8 months ago and I have not even got a letter with a new apointment yet.

ah sure it´s only a year

convienient that it was released today after the vote last night…no confidence James!

Is Reilly a clone of Brendan Grace including the voice but not in any way funny.

I moved to work in the UK. Am a surgical specialist where we have to see all referred patients within 13 weeks or suffer a massive fine. Needless to say we don’t get fined and manage to see all patients within that time. Am embarrassed for O’Reilly that 12 months is his aspiration.

“no body will have to wait more than a year”
If this is confidence in a minister than we should be ashamed of ourselves for still believing that this continuity FF/ stickies/DL/Workers party/labour government can run this country.

Speaking on Six One News, Minister Reilly said that reduced budgets don’t mean less people being treated.

Yeah I’d believe that alright.

You really couldn’t make this up. I don’t know whether to laugh with hysteria, or cry that everything seems to be an utter shambles with this government.

He says …. ” that by the end of next year no one will wait more than a year for their first appointment.” something to aspire to alright .Well done there jimmy boy !
So you go to the doctor with a lump on your back , your doc gives you a letter for a specialist and you finally get an appointment for twelve months ….Way to go there Reilly . Lots of confidence inspiration there .
Funny how this deplorable report came out today after he won that vote of no confidence against him. ,But lap it all up because we as a nation are idiots to be taking this B S …
We are worse off now than ever we were and the politicians will not listen to us .

Been on a public waiting list since 2008. Finally paid to go private and was seen within a month. Says it all about our health system really.

Third paragraph – he speaks as if this shambles is nothing at all to do with him. It makes me sick.

Despair.

My 80 year old dad, recently suffered a stroke in early August,he’s home now doing ok, but is having major trouble with his waterworks, doesn’t feel the urge to go with the result being that he wets himself constantly. His GP gave us a letter for the local hospital, duly brought it in and waited and waited and waited. Rang the urology dept on sept 9 and explained the situation- secretary told me that an appointment had been made for him in, wait for it ,Sept 17 …..2013! And she actually told me that this particular consultant doesn’t respond to ‘urgent’ letters from Gp’s and that perhaps I should “take him somewhere else”. Nice one Mr O Reilly.

All i can say is god bless the NHS – people moan about it at times but its a system that while it has its flaws it works!

Reporting a 2bn surplus for 2011/12

Max of 16 weeks for any service

I think the hse needs to look at their system because clearly their system is not working!

the most important thing is paying the unsecured bond holders. making sure the unions get their way and the politicians get their perks and big juicy pensions when they get out of the Dail having left a mess behind them! we keep voting in one set of idiots and then replace them with more clowns.

I was refered to the surgical assesment ward of the regional hospital Limerick by my gp in july with adominal pain. This subsided and i was sent home and put on a waiting list for a scan. Had scan in nov and radiographer told me i had galstones. Was then put on a waiting list to see consultant for treatment. In early jan 2011 I was brought to a and e in agony with what turned out to be pancreatitus caused by galstones. Was told by doctors that i would definitely have my galbladder removed within 6 weeks. In early march i was readmitted with pancreatitus again. At this stage i got on an emergency list and had my op. Only because I begged not to be sent home to be readmitted a few weeks later with the same problem and explained that i had a young.baby at home.
I got a phone call in June 2011 from st johns admission dept asking if i was coming in for my op as a private or public patient.

Mary Harney certainly deserves the huge pension, in fairness the mess FF left the health system in is shockin

If primary care was properly funded many of the patients on those waiting lists could be dealt with without going near to the hospitals. But the minister wants GPs to do this work for nothing, on top of their own workloads.

Could it be that the resistance to change was greater than he thought? Reilly believed that as a member of the profession he could call in a few favours here and there and all would be OK. But the government and the HSE in particular are inefficient, outdated, stacked full of cronyism and completely resistant to change. You just have to look at the statement from the surgeon in the case of the child for mouth surgery – ‘if I knew she was a private patient…………’ Pretty much says it all for health service in this country doesn’t it? I’d love to know O’Reilly’s thoughts on that but unfortunately they are probably different to the ‘party line’ so he won’t make them public!

The strategy of the HSE is very clear…they hope that “dead” will eventually clear those waiting lists…

So the over run is 270 million. that’s less than half of one payment to the bankers !!!! .
Seems reilly has his priorities right and kenny (the lack of capital letters are intentional as I do not view these as important and have no respect for them) and the rest of his rotten to the core lackies actually defended the so called (ill)health minister .
I wonder how many people will die or go beyond help because of this clown.

FF coudn’t get the health system in this country right when they had buckets of money to throw at it so what chance have they now?

One thing we can guarantee is that very few Fine Gael or Labour TD’s will have to wait four years for treatment . As usual those who are least affected by the cuts to health, education and social services are the loudest in their calls for continuing the cuts agenda.

Putting a doctor in charge of the health service is like putting Hindley and Brady [maybe even our Brady] in charge of a children’s home!

Just the same as the rest of them; all talk and no trousers.

None of them can do their job.

They filled the public with lies, lies and more lies so they would get to where they are and now they are walking over each and every citizen of Ireland.

The constitution says “all powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive under god, from the people and it provides for a democratic parliament and government to exercise the legislative and executive powers, respectively, and for an independent judiciary to exercise the judicial power”

” in it’s fundamental rights it guarantees the individual citizen freedom, EQUALITY and justice”

All I’m seeing them doing is take more and more money off the Irish citizens while they sit back with the bankers and have a good laugh at our expense.

http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government

Let’s blame FF sure that’s what the government continues to do.

Private health care. Around 12 euro a week. You take your life in you’re hands with the hse. Isn’t your life worth 12 euro ?

Where is crumblin?

Everything is always deferred to a later date. They are incapable of doing anything NOW.

October 2010.. Training for triathlon , tore my supraspinatus….. Went to local GP, referral for MRI, April 2011 MRI… yes Mr O’Shea you have a slight tear in the medial part of your supraspinatus, referral to Consultant… October 2011, Hi Mr O’Shea I am Dr Z, you have a tear in your supraspinatus , we will have to operate ” ok Doc, When” waiting list is a little over a year, oh right but I have private health insurance , deadly says Doc, will fit you in end of month… Health insurance company ” sorry Mr O’Shea but your not covered ( Phuket you VHI) letter arrived yesterday… Pre op chitty chat, op due in January..

That will be two years plus, the tear has healed itself but scar tissue leaves me in slight pain…

In fairness my problem is minor compared to others but what a shambles

PS anytime you go to Tullamore Hospital , you will see all types wandering around with clipboards , chatting and laughing whilst scores are waiting to be seen, there are huge problems within the HSE , admin everywhere scratching there arses and just to finish, I was seen by 4 different surgeons on each occasion but the main man popped in each of the four times to rubber stamp whatever the juniors had said AND he administered 3 steroid injections into the shoulder, my point, what the fluck were the others there for, when the had to be overseen at every occasion .

“Crumblin” ha ha oh deat

Timing of report is suspicious, the day after vote of no confidence was done, coincidence I think not

The other issue is that lack of adequate access to primary care and specialist outpatient services is more likely to cause a person to end up getting extremely ill and presenting to the hospital as an emergency via A&E.

This kind of thing is one of the reasons why we have an A&E and patients on trolleys crisis.

The problems in the health services in Ireland seem to be structural and organisational rather than lack of financial resources.

It’s pretty worrying that even during the boom, with vast resourced available the health ‘system’ was a mess. As the funding tightens, it’s not going to be able to cope.

It needs far more radical restructuring than its getting. At this stage it needs redesigning from the ground up!

It could be excellent but, nobody’s prepared to be radical enough to tackle vested interests, broken structures and lack of organisation and just do what’s necessary to put it right.

Soooo tempted to send this article to Obama. Something for folks in the USA to look forward to!

Maybe Reilly and the civil servants need to look at how the change was brought about in Britain when the National Health there was started.

One obvious problem is that people are kept in hospital sometimes for weeks waiting for the consultants to turn up to inspect them and agree that they are now well enough to go home. We need to get rid of the whole ‘consultant’ nonsense, and have hospital doctors who are State employees paid a normal salary and who can use the machinery such as PET scanners that’s been paid for by the State.

Then any doctor who wishes to be a private consultant could do so – but buy his own PET scanner etc, or get together with other private consultants to buy this equipment, without getting subvention from the State.