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THE HSE HAS been criticised for not disclosing waiting list numbers for MRI scans, CT scans and bone scans for the past three years.
Fianna Fáil health spokesperson Billy Kelleher has requested that the HSE publish figures on the number of people waiting for these critical diagnostic scans in hospitals across the country.
The HSE’s response has been similar for each of the Cork TD’s three annual requests: that they’re unable to collate the figures and are working on a system to do so.
In summer 2015, Kelleher was told that the HSE is “continually working to improve, expand and learn from those Key Performance Indicators on which hospitals report” and would begin collecting national data from 2016.
In 2016, in response to the same request, the HSE claimed that it is “continually working to improve and monitor performance” and was “working to establish a system to track waiting lists for a range of diagnostic procedures”.
It said that the reason why it hadn’t been done yet was because “such a system requires significant testing and validation which, in time, will facilitate the production of national data reports … for diagnostic waiting times”.
It added that a pilot programme had been developed to test a method of collecting the data.
This summer, in response to the same request, the HSE repeated its response from 2016.
“It’s simply ludicrous that after all this time the HSE cannot provide this information as a matter of routine,” Kelleher said.
“Every month the National Treatment Purchase Fund publishes validated waiting lists for in-patients, day cases and outpatients across an enormous range of specialities.
It should be given the responsibility for these waiting lists as well since the HSE has proven to be completely incompetent when it comes to compiling and providing what should be standard information.
Earlier this year, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) came under criticism after it looked as though the waiting list figures they published were far lower than the real numbers, and it was revealed that there were two other unpublished waiting lists.
A European-wide assessment of Ireland’s healthcare system published in January also found that Ireland has the worst waiting list times when it came to its hospitals’ accident and emergency units.
The HSE did disclose the number of public and voluntary hospitals that carry out MRI scans, CT scans and bone scans, which was also part of Kelleher’s query.
It included 39 hospitals for CT scans, 29 hospitals that carry out MRI scans, and 13 hospitals that facilitate bone scans.
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They are truely a beautiful people, with a beautiful culture. Far superior by all standards.
Gawd I have to agree with u there. They astonish me. Such commitment to culture. Its wonderful.
Eh? Aren’t you forgetting a few things? Such as the Rape of Nanking etc. etc.
Picked up a book by Arthur Golden “memoirs of a geisha” and have been fascinated by their culture ever since. Some excellent books out there about Japanese culture, they are so proud of everything and have never let anything like war take away their core values and beliefs.
Tell that to the POW soldiers from World War Two how nice they were to them. Sweeping statement from you Sir, judge people as individuals rather than a group.
Eh…. no!
Well the actions in China and agsonst POWs should not reflect on country or people. The Germans done horrible things in killing millions of Jews. Tge British firebombed dresden for revenge with no military importance. The Americans dropped two A bombs horrifically burning tens of thousands
War is hell
So back to Japanese culture. It really looks so amazing :) I love all things Japanese
Rísteard I completely disagree. Yes elements of their culture are to be admired but their society is full of inequality, they have a high suicide rate (top 10), they can be xenophobic and lets not forget their shameful recent history.
Don’t get me wrong I love Japan and it’s culture but knowing my freedoms here I would not like to be Japanese at all.
What about the hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans that were sent to internment camps in the USA during ww2 not much difference to what the Germans did … Yep that’s a story that you don’t really hear about
“They are truely a beautiful people, with a beautiful culture. Far superior by all standards.”
There’s nothing beautiful about those three faces. If you want to know about their culture, look up ‘Nanking’ and their use of vivisection (operating on someone who is awake without anaesthesia) on the Chinese, which has conveniently been left out of Japanese history books. Beautiful.
They have an issue now with young people living at home and never getting married (hikikomori), you can buy used schoolgirls’ knickers in vending machines and they have porn that involves an octopus. They also kill thousands of whales for ‘research’ and in general their culture of pride is known to be rather overbearing.
BUT. They make nice cars and I love my twin exhaust, 20 valve Toyota.
It was the US that forced the Japanese to declare war and also the American government allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor on purpose and didnt inform their troops even tough they knew it would happen so theyd get a reason for their aggression
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/fdr_provoked_the_japanese_attack.htm
and
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/fdr_provoked_the_japanese_attack.htm
GO READ SOMETHING BEFORE TALKING OUT OF YOUR ASS
WRONG LINK ON THE SECOND WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THIS
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100622094119AAECxVI
He looks like a Japanese Damian from the Omen
Well he was born on the 06/09/06 so could be something to that ;)
wimmin as emperors? down with that sort of thing!
Monarchy is wrong on so many levels. What has that child achieved to be held in such esteem? Absolutely nothing.
Monarchy is not just undemocratic, it is antidemocratic. It relies on the reduced rights of Subjects to maintain its position
He looks like the fella out of The Goonies
I feel sorry for royals, particularly within a monarchy with such strict, ritualized codes of behavior. There is beauty in the rituals but to live your whole life that way means you have no personal freedom. That boy has only one life and he won’t ever get to decide what to do with it.
These bus drivers are getting younger every year ! ! !
Do Japanese monarchs marry there cousins too? with all the inbreeding its a wonder they can function at all really!
we can say the same about the brits lol
He has his fathers eyes.
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