UHL ‘completely overheated’ says HSE’s Gloster

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0809/1464208-limerick-hospitals/

Posted by eoinerboner

9 Comments

  1. willmannix123 on

    This is a fucking disgrace. Pure and utter incompetence to allow UHL to get to such a state

  2. The HSE: Closes Ennis and Nenagh A&E’s without massively expanding UHL

    UHL: Collapses

    The HSE: How could UHL do this?!

  3. BananaHammock1757 on

    So to stop excess patient demand on services we’re going to stop providing services to lessen patient demand. Have I got that right?

  4. MischievousMollusk on

    You can (and by many models should) close understaffed, underresourced regional hospitals. But when you do that, you need to properly expand the services of the main urban centers so that they can properly accommodate the increased load, both from traffic infrastructure to patient flow and outpatient services.

    Clearly no one thought of any of this. So we’re stuck with either our current model which is limping along to a slow painful death or transitioning to what should be the better model but won’t be because no one has a mind to do it properly.

    The HSE is a fucking joke and everyone involved should be fired.

  5. trooperdx3117 on

    I’m trying to understand here, there were a lot of people on here saying that closing regional hospital A&E’s was a good thing and we should be centralising it.

    But so far it seems to be an absolute disaster, help me understand what was the logic here?

  6. sweetsuffrinjasus on

    Just to think of all the people who have died here, either unnecessarily, or prematurely. It’s quite frightening stuff. We ought to all let that settle in and ask is it acceptable.

    I’m personally afraid we are so densensitised to it. A chunk of these people are of a lower to upper-lower socioeconomic status, or at best there’s an odd few in the middle. As a result there’s frankly little thought of it in public officialdom, and that’s the truth I’m afraid. You are talking a low power group versus the might of the State and all their machinery.

    Now look, I’m not saying the public servants are unfeeling, or cruel. It’s more so to do with accountability. The same story has been told over and over again in Ireland. We have the copyright on covering your arse, sweeping it under the carpet until you get your lump sum and pension, and blaming someone else.

    But it’s not one bit funny when it comes to your door.

  7. Puzzleheaded_Book323 on

    What are the highly paid managers doing in the HSE? This was completely avoidable, it all boils down to no accountability for these people making stupid decisions and being allowed stay in jobs they are very obviously not qualified to do.