Our health crisis - Management of hospitals fails test

IMAGINE IF, on a Tuesday morning, the chief executive of a first class, international company — say Ryanair, Kerry Group or Apple — got a report on an external audit.

Imagine further, that the auditors found that out of 51 plants under the executive’s control not one could register a “very good” in the basic, essential mechanics of their everyday business.

Nine — more or less 20% — were rated “poor”, 35, that’s 70%, scaled the heady summit defined as “fair”.