Special Report - Day 2: How sick is our health service?

The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated significant and rapid changes in the health service, the speed and scale of which illustrated the capacity and flexibility within the service for a new way of doing things. Picture: Denis Minihane

The rapid and significant response by the health service to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised hopes that the transformative Sláintecare plan can be fast-tracked to deliver  universal healthcare and end the two-tier public-private system, writes Maresa Fagan

Covid-19 precipitated significant and rapid changes in the health service when the pandemic struck in March.