Special report: National health survey ‘the first real effort’ to hear patients’ voices

Ireland’s first National Patient Experience Survey is “the first real effort” to hear the voice of the patients, according to Health Minister Simon Harris.

At the survey launch in Dublin yesterday, he said it went “beyond the headlines” and the “political debate” to “actually talk to people who use the services”.

The results presented “a different picture to the one we focus on”, Mr Harris said.