Expert: Covid-19 crisis an opportunity to build a one-tier health system

A health policy expert has said that one of the most important things to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis is an understanding of what it would be like to have a one-tier health care system, “to have access based on need with all facilities working in the public interest.”

Dr Sara Burke, Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Trinity College also told RTÉ radio’s Today with Séan O’Rourke show that 150 private consultants - or a quarter of all private consultants - have signed up to the HSE’s new public-only contract.