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<blockquote data-quote="Muintir" data-source="post: 6142240" data-attributes="member: 16185"><p>RTÉ Prime Time's investigation of the scandalous nature of consultant practice in the public health system is not surprising but still shocking when so nakedly exposed. Consultants are using the facilities of public hospitals to treat private patients who get treated long before public patients with a nice profit for the consultants. They are also working fewer hours than they are contracted for and paid for in public hospitals, so they can work longer hours in lucrative private hospitals. 6 per cent of consultants treat public patients only. So much for the promise made years ago that a new public-only contract would bring change. 6 per cent!</p><p></p><p>And to add disgust to shock the Irish Medical Organisation spokesperson Gilligan says the reason is the co-location plan did not go ahead. In other words the Government did not let them build their private hospitals or clinics on public hospital sites. Parasites is the only word for these people. And successive health ministers have let them away with it. Unbelievably the HSE has stopped collecting data on compliance of consultants with the requirement on them to adhere to their contracts and work a minimum of hours in the public system. The lack of response from the HSE and hospital managements, or their pathetic responses when given, was glaring.</p><p></p><p>This rotten two-tier system must be replaced by a new Irish public health service with care based on medical need alone and not on ability to pay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muintir, post: 6142240, member: 16185"] RTÉ Prime Time's investigation of the scandalous nature of consultant practice in the public health system is not surprising but still shocking when so nakedly exposed. Consultants are using the facilities of public hospitals to treat private patients who get treated long before public patients with a nice profit for the consultants. They are also working fewer hours than they are contracted for and paid for in public hospitals, so they can work longer hours in lucrative private hospitals. 6 per cent of consultants treat public patients only. So much for the promise made years ago that a new public-only contract would bring change. 6 per cent! And to add disgust to shock the Irish Medical Organisation spokesperson Gilligan says the reason is the co-location plan did not go ahead. In other words the Government did not let them build their private hospitals or clinics on public hospital sites. Parasites is the only word for these people. And successive health ministers have let them away with it. Unbelievably the HSE has stopped collecting data on compliance of consultants with the requirement on them to adhere to their contracts and work a minimum of hours in the public system. The lack of response from the HSE and hospital managements, or their pathetic responses when given, was glaring. This rotten two-tier system must be replaced by a new Irish public health service with care based on medical need alone and not on ability to pay. [/QUOTE]
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