Not one, but two reports were published on the disgraceful state of our cancer care, and guess what? Neither report blamed a single individual for the disastrous mistakes that caused the Portlaoise breast-cancer debacle.
Not one!
Nobody!
It’s all systemic this and organisational that and communication the other fucking thing.
Well, would you like to know something? It isn’t.
It’s [...]

There’s an almighty row going on at the moment about the contracts being offered to new hospital consultants.
An incredible uproar.
And the reason? Well, the government is going to hire more consultants, but they’ll have to work exclusively in the public health service. They won’t be able to have private patients under the new [...]

I decided to see what all this was about so I went to the Government web site and downloaded an impenetrable document which I spent a couple of hours going through.
I made a list of typical Health Service jobs and laid them out according to their maximum salary. It makes for an interesting comparison. [...]

Irish readers will know about the dispute in Cork about opening the new maternity hospital. The nurses’ organisation says the proposed staff levels are too low for safety and they won’t operate the hospital unless numbers are increased. Well and good. I don’t know. (Not being a nurse, or a [...]