Irish Examiner view: The HSE is failing many young patients

That our medical services are so obviously failing so many young people in particular, is something the Government is going to have to radically address

In New York on Sunday, Tánaiste Micheál Martin told our political editor, Elaine Loughlin, about hospital consultants being “slow” to refer seriously ill children to appropriate medical centres of excellence. Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA

Frustration with the apparent inability of the HSE to deal with an array of issues is widespread and understandable, but the ongoing failures of the HSE with regard to children and their healthcare is possibly the single most concerning issue to have come to light.

Ongoing failures with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs), highlighted last month in a damning report by inspector of mental health services Susan Finnerty, have been shown to be pervasive across-the-board with failures of management, organisation, and governance.