In the past few months, Dr Reilly has brought politics right back into the heart of the health service. The Health Service Executive might be a bureaucratic, money-sucking monster. But one of its achievements has been to put key decisions on health care beyond the reach of local politicians.
Parish-pump politics is often blamed by experts for helping to land the health service in the state it’s in. They crowded on to every local health board in the country, pushing, jostling and lobbying. They clamoured for hospitals in every constituency in a country with a population of four million, and got them at election time. (Independent) >
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