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Call for Minister Reilly to reverse cuts to Home Care services
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Friday August 31, 2012 12:52 by pat c
Older & Bolder is calling on Minister James Reilly TD to reverse the cuts to Home Care Services announced yesterday by the HSE. She continued “This is precisely the approach that has now been adopted by the HSE under Minister Reilly’s political leadership. Of the cuts announced yesterday, 18% are applied to the most under-resourced and thinly stretched element of HSE services; that is home and community care services which are already failing to meet the needs of children with life- limiting illnesses, people with disabilities and older people. How can Minister Reilly stand by as the Director of Integrated Services in HSE, Ms. Laverne McGuinness tell us on national radio that ‘those most in need will have continuity of Home Care packages’ and, in the same breath, tells us that families may only need those services for a limited number of weeks ? This will exacerbate the fears of families caring for relatives at home who are suffering with illness, disability, frailty.” |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Yes indeed but WE also need to remind ourselves too of many things, including the undeniable fact that sitting politicians in Ireland are now proficient brazen liars who think nothing is wrong with their catalogue of public lies because none of them have ever been properly taken to task for their deceipt.
and however we berate them after such announcements of increased austerity and loss of public services to the poor, they still can go home and take solace in their bloated salaries of over 100K plus perks and expenses and the fact that the FG agenda of privatisation and reduction in wages, public services and welfare is being implemented in leaps and bounds like it was never possible to do before.
on the one hand, distraction and lots of bruhaha about abortion because life is sacred. But once it gets here it can fuck off and die. We don't want to give it any welfare or housing or education or health care.
We'd be happier if, once born, it just went out , lived rough, got sick without contacting the HSE and died homeless in the gutter. Well either that or spent it's life in a shitty job with low pay and no rights, desperately struggling to pay high rents and rising privatised monthly utility bills and household charges.
And suicide is not even an option to this horror story. You can't even get a grant to kill yourself quickly and humanely with some dignity. You have to suffer and die in misery and shame and poverty.
Nice humane little country we have made here. Our own little mini version of the hellhole corporate police state that is the US.
If HSE was in the private sector, there would be what's known as a Dawn Raid, with an offer from another member of the private sector to buy it over, asset strip it, cut surplus to requirement, create mergers where replication applies only too often. What have we got for all our years of trying to create a fair and equitable health service: We have a bureaucratic mess. We have people with salaries as advisors to Minister Reilly being allowed to break imposed pay barriers because they are supposed to be able to provide something special! The truth is they are not; they are just bluffers telling him they merit the salary otherwise people will not respect or co-operate with them. It is this hierarchial nonsense that says the pay package means more than the value added mindset who is not overly focused on money, counts.
More of these advisers are transferring themselves to Europe to be part of that gravy train of expenses gone wild and what we are realisticially creating is a tier of bureaucrats who rank at the top of the PONZI scheme cashing in on all this invested while those who are last in, ie the punters who get sick, who become old, who have disabilities, are the fall guys, the ones who lose out. Let us stop the nonsense at the top and if this means tackle the Croke Park Agreement then by all means do but keep in mind the concept of PONZI (these are the ones who will benefit from pension pots the like of which will never be seen again). Having come through the Celtic Tiger and struggled at every level to get the support of a carer just for say 2 hours a week and never having managed inspite of making contact with agency after agency, health services, I know what bureaucracy is about and no outcome but the compassion of people who are givers.
Minister Reilly, a GP, nearly 18 months in power yet why does he not listen, communicate, interact with people who have experience, who may have disabilities. We hear all these high flyers but what about the people at grassroots level. Why China in August? If there are good reasons, well then explain to us.
Baggot Street Hospital: There are many postings about this so called Community Hospital which doesn't even have a resident doctor. Primary Care is but a pepple. Take TILDA - who knows about it.? Tilda is the longtitudinal study on ageing. It is centred at Trinity and sponsored by Atlantic Philantropies (Chuck Feeney). 8,000 volunteers give of their time and the aim is to assist organisations like HSE to have a broader spectrum to implement policy decisions and improve the living standards of older people. Nobody pays any heed to these research studies. The '90's, 2000-2012, how much research has really impacted on the lives of people who are ageing, with disabilities, in need of care, sick. They still have not tackled the issue of two tierism in the professions of medicine ie you are private or public but realistically the truth is they have the option of taking advantage of both. You can have private in a public bed or have a practice where you can see medical card patients or take a private fee of $60 euros. Moment of Truth - twitter gives a good indication of thinking in the US. The team are two US type elderly men - Simpson and Bowles. Experience tells them that Healthcare in the US must take massive cuts, that healthcare fraud must be tackled. We in Ireland can learn from this and NOW.
Conflict of interest, cronyism yet again only this time it is the medical profession, followed by the tier of jealous bureaucrats who are salary/status focused.
Shame on Us.
All I can say is that we may have primary care units, shops, coffee shops, shopping centre, a totally over-extended HSE and Public sector enhanced by the Croke Park agreement but where are the qualities of humanity and people. We have lost manners, we have lost compassion, we have lost caring. We all can give. Givers don't want to be takers. So let's revive a public spirit and work to combat fraud, corruption, especially in health care.