Alison O'Connor: Reid is one of many who tried — and failed — to sort out the health service

Without the right money and power to implement change, it's likely that any new 'saviour' will face the same fate

Paul Reid said he took the decision to step down 'with a heavy heart'. Picture: Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland

And another one bites the dust. Paul Reid joins the long line of people, over decades now, who were going to sort out, once and for all, our ailing health services. But didn’t.

The departing chief executive of the HSE, along with a long line of health ministers, joins the pantheon of those trumped as health service saviours.