Money won’t cure HSE ills

Despite the fact that our health system is overloaded over Christmas every year and despite the fact the Government of the day talks about being better prepared the following year, every year we get it wrong, writes Paul Mills. 

There was an estimated 575 patients on trollies across the country at the start of the week, supposedly down from 677 patients the previous week.

A doctor speaking on RTÉ Radio argued that excessive numbers of trollies created psychological problems for patients and interfered with medical staff nursing other patients. It made emergency departments more inefficient.