Another Hospital Scandal

[drzhivago]

Fergal Bowers has just reported HIQA knew about this in April last year and they were only told of the numbers involved in January - yet again questions need to be asked about regulatory bodies and how their own management of this farce!

Many years ago called Health and safety authority about teh messes in A&E, patients on trolleys blocking corridors, equipment and extension cables everywhere with risk of slipping/tripping

The response
we cant do anything about it because we would have to close all teh A&Es and we just cant do that

Amazing the fire officer can close a nightclub if there were similar issues but we cant sort it in a hospital

Do we need a stardust in a hospital before these things get acted upon

[drzhivago]

Cowen in Dail questions was saying the best health systems have errors. Well that's true. He was referring to the two cases as misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis and he was unsure how that would have affected the outcome in relation to the person who was DEAD. The family of the person who is now deceased were only apparently informed yesterday. The other person is obviously undergoing treatment. But no other patient was informed of the error or that there X-Ray's had to be reviewed. This whole case apparently came to light in December and Minister Harney became aware of it one day after Prof. Conlon was made aware of it on his appointment as CEO. Prof. Conlon was apparently medical directorate before his appointment.

So my questions are;

1. What were the risk management systems in place
2. What procedures did Tallaght have for reporting on X-Ray's
3. Did consultants not red flag that no written reports were being provided and that includes Prof. Conlon and what did these consultants do
4. Why were persons and GP's not informed prior to this whole cock up having to be whistleblown
5. Why did Mary Harney not respond
6. Was the State claims agency informed and was the non-response and non-disclosure part of their advice
7. Who was the whistleblower?

Great questions

Why is she the only Minister who is not responsible for anything related to the primary function of her office

[drzhivago]

Is there any info on whether this was a consultant not bothering to read and report on x-rays? or was it a failure of the PACS system to route or flag unreported x-rays within some defined period of time?

Consultant ortho saw xrays not radiologist

[drzhivago]

Which it is heads should roll at that hospital particularly at consultant level how could they attend to their paitients without reference to their xrays god even if u have a sprained ankle an xray is looked at? Great vote of confidence in our public health system, No wonder the Yanks are saying no!!

Missing the point here big time

Consultant Orthopaedic saw Xray

Consultant radiologist dod not report the xray formally which should happen for all Xrays

The Consultant Ortho is the treating consultant

[atlantic]

We spend 15 billion on our Health services around 3.5 k per person ,we should have a health service thats class, but what we have are over paid moaners and whingers.

It's the result of chronic understaffing of medical doctors, and reliance on nurse-specialist run quangos.

At the end of the day, you need doctors. If you lack them, don't employ them, embargo on their recruitment, people die: either sooner, or later. The same can not be said for a specialist in teddy bear organisation and hand holding therapy.

[Tallaght01]

We spend 15 billion on our Health services around 3.5 k per person ,we should have a health service thats class, but what we have are over paid moaners and whingers.

You have staff who moan about working up to 40 hours free overtime a week if you're an intern. They moan about having to treat patients in A+E for days instead of on proper wards, when all the data suggests patients on trolleys are at higher risk of complications and death.
They moan about having to move jobs and houses every 6 months, to different ends of the country.
They moan that our training budgets are now non existent in Ireland, yet we're expected to provide up to date, evidence based care.

But they don't just moan. They leave, like I did, for Oz where the conditions are much better. That's going to be the pattern of the future I'm afraid, until the jokers running healthcare start looking at it as a healthcare system, and not a political plaything.