Audiology services - Pathetic HSE promises fall on deaf ears

IF there were rankings for muddling, overpaid, bureaucratic inefficiency, surely our Health Service Executive would deserve a high international ranking.

The list of inefficiencies seems as endless as the unfulfilled aspirations.

Vacuous performance, elaborate platitudes or empty promises will not solve our problems. If they would, those problems would have disappeared long ago, and we would have the kind of high-grade health service for which we have been paying. But the truth is that our health service is sick and getting sicker, because of the overpaid bureaucratic bungling. It will hardly be of surprise to anyone to learn that the HSE is inefficient in the treatment of hearing impairment.