{"id":1577,"date":"2021-05-12T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/slaintecare-implementation-plan-lacks-detailed-timeline-and-budget\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:19:20","slug":"slaintecare-implementation-plan-lacks-detailed-timeline-and-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/slaintecare-implementation-plan-lacks-detailed-timeline-and-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Sl\u00e1intecare implementation plan lacks detailed timeline and budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The government has apparently pledged \u20ac3.69 billon to implement this plan, but that figure is not mentioned anywhere in the report<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s Sl\u00e1intecare implementation plan contains a number of positive commitments \u2013 but fails to provide a detailed timeline or breakdown of the budget, according to Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3isin Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is four years this month since Sl\u00e1intecare was published and implementation has been extremely slow. Given Sl\u00e1intecare is a 10-year plan, it is essential that its implementation is now accelerated. The budget, therefore, clearly is key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has apparently pledged \u20ac3.69 billon to implement this plan, but that figure is not mentioned anywhere in the report. Instead, it was included in a separate statement accompanying the report. This begs the question, has this report been costed?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems, that in plucking out a figure of \u20ac3.69 billion, the government has simply multiplied this year\u2019s Sl\u00e1intecare budget, of \u20ac1.235 billion, by three \u2013 with no regard to the financial cost of the individual health reform measures it intends to introduce. Hardly a rigorous approach to financial planning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving forward with Sl\u00e1intecare is essential. Front-line workers in the health service performed heroically throughout the pandemic, but covid has caused enormous damage. This is evident in the huge surge in numbers on waiting lists, with nearly one million people expected to be on waiting lists for hospital care by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapacity in the health service now urgently needs to be addressed. Therefore, the commitment to build three new elective hospitals in Cork, Dublin and Galway, to treat waiting list patients, is welcome. However, those hospitals will take years to construct and don\u2019t deal with our immediate problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHiring an additional 7,000 community healthcare staff is something that could make a difference, and take pressure off our acute hospitals, so it is imperative that this recruitment is front-loaded to help tackle the very long waiting lists for community services like speech and language therapy and physiotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan also promises to remove private care from public hospitals, gives no detail on how it proposes to do this. The report simply reiterates a government commitment to introduce a Sl\u00e1intecare Consultant Contract and is entirely vague about any other measures that may be necessary to do this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lack of detail is also reflected in the failure to include a detailed timeline for the implementation of the plan. Targets are listed for all four quarters of 2021, but this level of specificity is absent for 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vision of Sl\u00e1intecare, as the report acknowledges, is to achieve a universal single-tier health and social care system, where everyone has equitable access to services based on need, and not ability to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there is no information in the implementation plan on how the government proposes to remove cost as a barrier to care. In that respect, I am concerned to see references to developing proposals for \u201cUniversal Eligibility\u201d rather than \u201cUniversal Entitlement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this country, we have never suffered a dearth of reports, which promised to deliver health reform. What we have lacked is the political will and a ring-fenced budget. The pandemic has shown us that our health service can evolve, to respond to an unprecedented health crisis. We can\u2019t now allow stasis to develop and a return to the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social Democrats will support any genuine effort to implement Sl\u00e1intecare, but we will be watching to ensure the timelines listed in this report are met and the full range of measures are introduced over the coming three years. Further information on the budget is also immediately required.<\/p>\n<p>12 May, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has apparently pledged \u20ac3.69 billon to implement this plan, but that figure is not mentioned anywhere in the report The government\u2019s Sl\u00e1intecare implementation plan contains a number of positive commitments \u2013 but fails to provide a detailed timeline or breakdown of the budget, according to Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3isin Shortall. \u201cIt is four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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