Enjoyed the podcast. The consensus reached at the end that the governing parties should take the opportunity to put more funding into health and housing appears the right course. However, while you flag the caveat of the “capacity” to deliver constraint in respect of housing, is not the same issue just as relevant in health? What I mean is that more funding without restructuring - and specifically addressing the lack of capacity in terms of both front-line health workers on the one hand and hospital infrastructure on the other, makes no sense. We are training and then losing far too many Doctors and Nurses – who either go abroad or into different professions, because of pay and conditions (and the conditions part is a major factor it seems). This simply has to be sorted urgently and now is surely the time for government and HSE leadership to act.
Enjoyed the podcast. The consensus reached at the end that the governing parties should take the opportunity to put more funding into health and housing appears the right course. However, while you flag the caveat of the “capacity” to deliver constraint in respect of housing, is not the same issue just as relevant in health? What I mean is that more funding without restructuring - and specifically addressing the lack of capacity in terms of both front-line health workers on the one hand and hospital infrastructure on the other, makes no sense. We are training and then losing far too many Doctors and Nurses – who either go abroad or into different professions, because of pay and conditions (and the conditions part is a major factor it seems). This simply has to be sorted urgently and now is surely the time for government and HSE leadership to act.