Don’t go off your trolley over a reshuffle of health bureaucrats

THE NEW plan which Health Minister Micheál Martin has apparently presented to his cabinet colleagues will, reportedly, have as revolutionary an effect on our health service as the invention of the trolley did.

Without the trolley the system would have collapsed years ago because there would have been no place to park patients as they waited for hours on end - if not days - for crucial treatment.

Uncomfortable though the trollies are, they are a vehicle, so to speak, for advancing from a corridor to a hospital bed and to eventual relief.