Minister for Health needs to get over his ‘heartbreak’ and get on with change

If being ‘ashamed’ and ‘heartbroken’ over hospital waiting lists is the best Simon Harris can offer, the issue will never be resolved, suggests Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.    

You could argue that the most tragic aspect of the RTÉ investigation highlighting the eternal horror of hospital waiting lists is that another RTÉ investigation highlighted the exact same crisis two years ago.

Just as we saw kids crushed by debilitating spinal deformities on Monday night’s Prime Time, we saw other kids with similar problems and the same hopeless approach to treating them back in January 2015.