Future of Healthcare report: It's in nobody’s interest to pull this apart

Devising a cross-party health strategy was a very good idea. It did away with the need for opposition politicians to pick apart a vision for the simple selfish reason that it wasn’t their own, writes Catherine Shanahan.

There are a lot of good ideas in the Sláinte Care report, published yesterday, less than a year after the committee on the future of healthcare started that thankless job.

Trouble is, a lot of the ideas are well worn — Fine Gael’s 2011 Programme for Government, and New Direction, the government primary care strategy of 2001.