Medical staff only employment in the Health Service

[odie1kanobe]

Aside from Doctors (including the various consultants, registrars etc), Nurses and other medically qualified essential staff why should the health service employ anybody else ?

Should not all the other services be contracted out to the private sector to ensure competition, compliance with standards, lowest cost and efficiency.

[laidback]

Wouldn't the contracted services just go to the govts friends who would do the least possible for the maximum profit?

i believe some services are already contracted out in some hospitals - like cleaning - which hospitals have the most MRSA - the ones where they employ the cleaners or where cleaning is subcontracted out? I don't know the answer to this but would be interesting to know.

I would not support contracting out - I would support (and its supposed to be happening) the rationalisation of the surplus administrators arising from the formation of the HSE. And cutting the big mgt salaries and bonuses. And drastically reducing the nos PR/communications staff internal and external.

[odie1kanobe]

Wouldn't the contracted services just go to the govts friends who would do the least possible for the maximum profit?

i believe some services are already contracted out in some hospitals - like cleaning - which hospitals have the most MRSA - the ones where they employ the cleaners or where cleaning is subcontracted out? I don't know the answer to this but would be interesting to know.

I would not support contracting out - I would support (and its supposed to be happening) the rationalisation of the surplus administrators arising from the formation of the HSE. And cutting the big mgt salaries and bonuses. And drastically reducing the nos PR/communications staff internal and external.

Not if their is a properly constitued tenders agency. Additionally you have an enforcement regime on everything from standards, cleanlines etc.

IF you rationalise everything then why do you need adminstrators in every hospital as if you have standardised everything then a central admin with some local functions does it all. This doesn't even have to be in Ireland, politically hard sell BUT if the bottom line is making the healths service more efficient and ensuring more people treated then clearly its worth looking at.