Health service reform cannot be piecemeal, patients’ group warns

A FAILURE to implement the full recommendations of the Prospectus Report on the structures and functions of the health service could lead to an even worse health system, the Irish Patient’s Association (IPA) said yesterday.

IPA spokesman Stephen McMahon warned that a repeat of the piecemeal approach to solving problems would make any new restructuring useless.

“If they still carry on with the legacy of piecemeal action then it will affect the overall core actions proposed by this report,” Mr McMahon said. “The old bureaucratic culture would not be able to exist side by side with the radical proposals to be implemented.”