{"id":1254,"date":"2020-10-13T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/budget-2021-did-not-allocate-sufficient-resources-to-our-icus-or-invest-adequately-in-slaintecare\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:23:07","slug":"budget-2021-did-not-allocate-sufficient-resources-to-our-icus-or-invest-adequately-in-slaintecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/budget-2021-did-not-allocate-sufficient-resources-to-our-icus-or-invest-adequately-in-slaintecare\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021 did not allocate sufficient resources to our ICUs or invest adequately in Sl\u00e1intecare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Budget 2021 did not allocate sufficient\u00a0resources\u00a0to our ICUs or invest adequately in\u00a0Sl\u00e1intecare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Roisin Shortall TD, co-leader and spokesperson on Health said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investment in ICUs flowing from Budget 2021 will fall far short of what is required. While capital expenditure in additional beds is welcome, there is a shortfall of around 250 critical care beds in the system. The budget allows for 66 new such\u00a0beds. This represents a clear lack of ambition and will disappoint people who would have hoped that the budget would address the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The headline health figure in Budget 2021 masks the fact that much of the additional health spending next year will be for Covid-19 measures, including the test and trace system and PPE. New demands on service delivery, infection prevention and control, and social distancing has put extreme pressure on a system that was already operating over-capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Access to healthcare should not depend on what\u2019s in your pocket. There is nothing in Budget 2021 to address\u00a0the costs of access to healthcare \u2013 including free GP care, extension of medical card availability or reduced costs of medicines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe severe impact of Covid-19 on the nation\u2019s mental health and wellbeing cannot be overstated. The surge in referrals has put new demands on chronically underfunded services with already far too long waiting lists. It is very regrettable that the Government have provided less than half of the \u20ac80m needed and services will continue to be overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government has signed up to Sl\u00e1intecare, and so\u00a0it&#8217;s disappointing to see the slow progress in its implementation.\u00a0 The great bulk of the health spending announced in the budget is Covid-19 related.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sl\u00e1intecare plan to reform our health service was published in 2017. It should now be in its fourth year of reform, but instead it has never received proper Government backing and funding to implement the plan. You can\u2019t help but ask whether our health service would have been better equipped to deal with Covid-19 if the Sl\u00e1intecare action plan had been implemented and funded from the start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no sign of the introduction\u00a0of the sorts of fundamental reforms required\u00a0in the provision of health services.\u00a0 There is nothing in the budget about the additional GPs, nurses, therapists required to support what was announced as a shift from acute hospitals to community care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to give people hope that coming out of the pandemic we will have a proper health service; hope that we can learn from decades of underinvestment and provide the kind of health and public health and social care service that provides timely access based on need, not ability to pay. 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