A Review of the Health Service Executive

A Review of the Health Service Executive (HSE)

The Health Service Executive was established in late 2004 and became active in January 2005. The HSE is supposed to provides health and social services to everyone living in Ireland. Its services are provided for young and old, in hospitals, health facilities and in community clinics across the country.

Recently, I had the privilege of experiencing the "services" provided by the HSE. While I appreciate that it is not the hard working staffs fault that the health system in this country is appalling, I couldn’t help but be disgusted. Long waiting periods, miss-diagnosis and poor communication would leave the even the most patient of people frustrated. It is a service for the people failing the people it’s there to treat and its over-worked staff miserably.

 It also beggars’ belief that high paid executives can make cut-backs on a service that is already stretch beyond it means. These people sitting in "ivory-towers" have little to no knowledge of what their staff and patients are left to endure. It is in my honest opinion that should these people step-out from behind their desks and be forced to wait for treatment like so many others they would think twice about cutting the service back to a bare minimum.