Health service - People want action not promises

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin’s commitment to press ahead with the radical Brennan Commission report on how to get more value for money in the health service deserves to be applauded.

Yet, it has to be said that the concerns voiced by Professor Niamh Brennan on the apparent tardiness in putting it into action were perfectly understandable.

Given the perceived lack of urgency in tackling the manifest problems of the country’s ailing health service, Prof Brennan can be forgiven for speaking out on a matter of grave public importance.