Now it's the doctors turn to ask "what have you done"?

by Kevin Walsh - Ethics: Social Justice: Efficiency Sun Apr 10, 2005 01:34

The last news report....I think these are similar words to what Mary Harney Tanaiste is reported to have said.

I ask, if not the individuals that comprise the system, then who is.

The Tanaiste mentioned a more Business dimension to the administration and organisation of the Health.

Is this the reason that Kevin Kelly has been transferred from the Department of Finance to accommodate the future filling of the post.

Is this substantiated due to the fact that Mr. Halligan, head of the NHS, decided to refrain from taking the post offered to him i.e. and most notably this was at the last minute.

It is most interesting that the Health System in the UK and Northern Ireland face similar problems. However, they took the positive stand surely......

Watch Panorama, Question Time, day-time programmes.......there is a most definite switch 'to be seen'. The approach also is to service users and their opinions.

Mr. Reid, former Northern Ireland Secretary, is to the forefront here. There are open sessions and He is Seen to Be Listening to service users/carers. This man has experience on his side.

Surely, we could do with something proactive and inclusive here in Ireland.

Given the Transfer of a Minister of Finance, are we talking about a 'Dawn Raid' scenaria.....Yes, the Mergers and Acquisitions financial cull of heads as would happen in public companies? Someone may have few here?

Michelle, I note your articles to Indymedia and I will say that arguments tend to be balanced and what is sought is some form of equality.

Think about individuals is critical surely.....this quotation is food for thought and even reaction, action...

Salvadorian Theologian Jon Sobrino

'The Prophet is a person on the street, the person who judges history from the view point of God'


Kevin Walsh

One more point, there is a good adage in Law that 'Justice ought to be seen to be done'. Surely, the same applies in Health (the largest public employer in Ireland).

by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice Fri Apr 08, 2005 02:23

Persistence yes otherwise I would just lie down .....

I asked my friend and he said to say

No. I am not in Opus Dei.......


Liked the graphic....


Michelle

by s.e.e...... Fri Apr 08, 2005 02:10

We need your sacred efficiencies.

Remove from us the frictions of empathy, of need.

Let there be conspicuous healthiness as we solidify the classes.

Step 1: Metered health

by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethics please Fri Apr 08, 2005 01:44

What about the patient in this whole equation?

What about empowerment of the patient and the removal of the 'Us Them' non interactive role of an elitist medical profession.

As a person with a lot of ill-health including psychiatric problems, I know a more integrated role would enhance the provision of medical services. It would also have the added advantage of encouraging people with ill-health to adopt a take responsibility approach.

Has anybody a view on this?

One more comment.

Govt. departs are very attached to employing the services of PR firms. Can someone ask, why they do not interact with their constituents who use the email and make some suggestions at no financial cost to them or perks.

The same goes for the myriad of sub-committees we have.

The Disabilities Bill is a clear indication of the worst parts of bureaucracy. Where is it? Why is it taking so long? Doctors are part of the equation for the Assessment Needs Officers yet surely this should be further ahead.

We need to listen; we need to hear.

Part of being bipolar perhaps means I have two lever arch files of interactive correspondence on health/education/rehabilitation and none was replied to!!!! Why have our politicians such arrogance and ignorance. It makes me think of living in Zimbabwe. Some 'colonials' gave me the tip - make sure you don't give your clothes to the locals, always charge them!! I say hello Social Capital.

I grew up with both parents working in a Rural Dispensary. There were no fears of insurance claims in that time and there were lots of files......an a dispensary doctor covered a lot of procedures and often did more than 20 calls a day and worked 7 days a week.

Bring back the passion; bring back that sense of morality.

We need multi-disciplinary practice. We need to focus on rehabilitative set-ups as our population age; we need to encourage the patient to be inquisitive and in search of answers. We need then to link with our Universities; Special Needs Education etc. etc. Why have we so few Speech Therapists Qualifying each year? Why so few Occupational Therapists? Immigration - why can't we up-date our health services by giving educated foreigners the chance to work in our evolving Healh system.

Integration is the word.

Second hand shops with limited energy provide me haunts these days. In Rathmines, I picked up a book written by Aldous Huxley, 1940's about Vision.

You see, I sustained brain damage affecting my right side and my eye. I have had plenty of opinion but little reality to being me. I just search and search.

Mr. Huxley explained exactly how I feel. Opthalmology today means something different today than in the 1940's. Opthalmoloby followed the Scientific route.

In a way, one might say, the scientfic route being built around economics; profit, supply and demand.

Huxley writes about the eye, the fault and adapting the mindset. In the 1940's GE reviewed the affect of light on people - their focus being to attract people to light.

I am extremely light senstive. I walk into a place and I get a feeling now I know I am checking out light and if it is possible for me to be there......

This is an example. I really do believe that the patient ought to retain their file; that they ought to have access to email centres even libraries.....The sense of balance helps.....


Michelle

Gandhi
'You have to be the change you want to see'

by dermo Tue Apr 05, 2005 18:26

The IMO usually oppose health care reform, except when pay goes up. Got any specifics about this?

by - Mon Apr 04, 2005 20:41

as a sign of respect to the dead Pontiff.

The INO had planned lunchtime demonstrations over the problems of overcrowding in A and E departments.

The "Enough is Enough" campaign will now begin on Tuesday of next week.

Meanwhile the government is under pressure to officially mourn, under a torrent of communications.
In radical leftie barcelona land the flags have been all dropped to half mast, some with black cord, and even some have been removed. Maybe the Taoiseach forgot auld De Valera when he signed the €U constitution.

don't forget Enough is Enough
next Tuesday 11th April.
http://www.ino.ie/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?TabID=6071&ItemID=4981&mid=8026
http://www.unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=9&si=70838

by ooops Fri Apr 01, 2005 18:03

please note as you look at the photo of Harney,
in front of the jigsaw and slogan the word "elderly".

There comes a moment when you must realise you have had enough. Basta! As a society you ought to have realised that by now.

You must ask yourselves, do you wish to continue with such great wealth and economic indicators if in real human development terms the majority do not see corresponding benefits?

You must ask yourselves now that you are "richer than switzerland" why do you have such poor public transport infrastructure, such poor health care and policy, such poor education investment.

You must ask yourselves who has taken you for a ride?

You must ask yourselves would it not be better to be a bit poorer on the "indicator side" and more humane?

Or is Thatcherism what you voted for?
Is the corruption and naked greed of FF networking which lurks behind the veneer of the PDs marketing language and legal "innovation" what you deserve?

another piece of the jigsaw.