View or download - Comhliosta - an integrated hospital waiting list management system
We in Sinn Féin are great believers in when something is broken, you stop and you fix it. It is time now for us to stop and to fix the crisis in our public health system.
The health services are in a perpetual state of chaos – Waiting lists continue to soar, exhausted staff are leaving in droves, and there is a dangerous lack of capacity in our ambulance services. Hundreds of people wait on trolleys for hours on end in our accident and emergency wards every single day. They are stripped of their dignity and of their basic human right to health care.
Endless reviews don’t work, committees don’t work, kicking the can down the road doesn’t work. The Winter Initiative hasn’t worked. The National Treatment Purchase Fund will not work in the long term. The people need solutions that work.
For Sinn Féin the long-term solution is clear – we need an Irish National Health Service. One that is truly public. That provides healthcare on the basis of need, not on who you are, where you live or how much money you earn. A system that is funded by progressive taxation.
In the immediate term we need to end the chaos in the system we have and we can do this by making bold decisions and focussing on solutions.
It is past time for action on healthcare. It is time to end the chaos, fix the problems and build towards a truly public Irish National Health Service.
View and share our Better For Health document PDF here.
Sinn Féin priorities in government would include:
