{"id":346,"date":"2012-01-17T07:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/health-service-plan-more-misery-on-way-says-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T07:53:35","slug":"health-service-plan-more-misery-on-way-says-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/health-service-plan-more-misery-on-way-says-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Service Plan more misery on way says Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;\"><strong>Health Service Plan\u00a0more misery\u00a0on way says\u00a0Crowe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe believes the HSE National Service Plan spells misery for health service users and staff in 2012. Crowe accused the\u00a0Health Minister James Reilly of tinkering with a plan that is based on the savage Budget 2012 cuts <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Deputy Crowe said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThis HSE National Service Plan is continuing to implement\u00a0 cuts to health spending in line with the savage cuts from the Government\u2019s Budget. The plan spells misery for people who use our health services and the staff who have to deliver those services. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe budget reduction of \u20ac750 million comes after the \u20ac1 billion reduction in 2011. Health Minister James Reilly\u2019s claim that front-line services can be preserved through greater efficiency is contradicted by the Plan which states that \u2018the bulk of the reductions that the HSE is required to deliver in 2012 will impact\u00a0 directly on frontline services in hospitals like Tallaght. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cLast year the people of Dublin South West were told that St Brigid\u2019s Nursing Home in Crooksling was to close in a decision that has caused significant disruption to the high dependency patients who are resident there. We are now facing the loss of nearly 600 beds in public nursing homes \u2013 a devastating blow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Like the people who opposed the closure of St Brigid\u2019s and the Abbeyleix Community Nursing Home I am certain that communities will increasingly resist these cuts that are resulting in the loss of beds and the threatened closures across this State. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Service Plan confirms the projected departure of 3,000 staff from the health services in 2012 and states that the Plan itself will have to be reviewed later in the year depending on the numbers going. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cAgain the Plan contradicts the Minister\u2019s repeated assurances that front-line care can be protected when it says that \u2018efficiencies will not compensate for the loss of frontline healthcare delivery staff in such large numbers\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Service Plan\u00a0more misery\u00a0on way says\u00a0Crowe Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe believes the HSE National Service Plan spells misery for health service users and staff in 2012. Crowe accused the\u00a0Health Minister James Reilly of tinkering with a plan that is based on the savage Budget 2012 cuts Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThis HSE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}