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Oireachtas health committee hears services suffered ‘hammer blow after hammer blow’

Call for National Development plan review to engage with doctors’ representatives New draft hospital consultant contracts received ‘only recently’ Surgeons in some parts of the country only have access to operating theatres for a half day a week, the Joint Committee on Health heard this morning at the latest Oireachtas discussions on the impact of Covid-19 on cancer services (June 2). The meeting heard of the ‘double blow’ of Covid-19 and the cyberattack on cancer services, with effects forecast to last for five, 10 and 15 years into the future. This was added to pre-Covid pressures...

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Updated: 9 Feb 2021, 15:12 IRELAND is going to be hit with a “tsunami of missed care” that will stretch the health service to its “absolute limit”, an Oireachtas Committee was told. Healthcare reps also warned of staff retention issues and a post-pandemic “exodus” of workers from the system as the state was accused of abandoning them. 2 2 The Oireachtas Health Committee this morning heard from organisations representing consultants, doctors, nurses and midwives Reps from the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA), the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and The I...

Irish health service 'facing tsunami of missed care' There are currently more than 800,000 people on hospital waiting lists. Michelle Devane, PA IRELAND'S healthcare system is facing a "tsunami of missed care" due to non-Covid care being put on hold during the pandemic, an Oireachtas health committee has said. Professor Robert Landers of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) warned that the health service will not be able to deal with the issues coming down the line in a timely fashion and that it will stretch the service to the "absolute limit". "There is no doubt that we're faci...