{"id":1676,"date":"2021-09-14T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/third-resignation-means-slaintecare-in-complete-disarray\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:22:53","slug":"third-resignation-means-slaintecare-in-complete-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/third-resignation-means-slaintecare-in-complete-disarray\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Resignation Means Sl\u00e1intecare In Complete Disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>There are fundamental problems with Sl\u00e1intecare that those charged with implementing it view as intractable<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and Secretary General of the Department of Health Robert Watt must come to the Health Committee to answer questions about the crisis engulfing Sl\u00e1intecare, according to Social Democrats Health Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, the chairperson of the South\/South West Hospital Group, Professor Geraldine McCarthy resigned, explicitly stating her departure was due to a failure to implement Sl\u00e1intecare reforms.<\/p>\n<p>In her resignation letter, Prof. McCarthy stated: \u201cMuch-needed reform of the health services has not been delivered. This includes the establishment of regional health authorities with autonomy over decisions, budgets and capital spend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProf McCarthy is the third senior figure in the health service to resign in less than a week due a failure to progress Sl\u00e1intecare reforms, after Prof Tom Keane and Laura Magahy resigned last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister for Health Stephen Donnelly and Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin have both reiterated their commitment to Sl\u00e1intecare, but these resignations belie those limp assurances. Clearly, there are fundamental problems with Sl\u00e1intecare that those charged with implementing it view as intractable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSl\u00e1intecare is a cross-party plan that achieved unanimous support in the D\u00e1il. Despite this it now appears to be in complete disarray because of serious resistance in the HSE and the Department of Health to institutional change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Health Committee is meeting this afternoon and I will be asking members to request that Minister Donnelly and the Secretary General of the Department of Health Robert Watt attend as a matter of urgency to answer questions about this deepening crisis.<\/p>\n<p>14 September, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fundamental problems with Sl\u00e1intecare that those charged with implementing it view as intractable Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and Secretary General of the Department of Health Robert Watt must come to the Health Committee to answer questions about the crisis engulfing Sl\u00e1intecare, according to Social Democrats Health Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall. \u201cYesterday, the chairperson of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","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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