Reactions to health reports ‘leads to fear’

CLAMOURING for heads on a platter every time a report on the health services is published will discourage people from opening up, the head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) warned yesterday.

Prof Brendan Drumm, said people needed to learn that it was “absolutely normal” for the health authority to publish results and reports showing that it got it wrong at times.

“Over time I think the public will see that as a positive thing rather than a headline to be grabbed for the next day’s newspaper,” Prof Drumm told a health conference in Dublin.