Read the IHCA’s Submission to the Public Accounts Committee On Public & Private Medical Practice

In its Submission to the Public Accounts Committee On Public & Private Medical Practice, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association states:
1. The information currently provided by the HSE does not accurately reflect the clinical activity of Hospital Consultants as significant parts of their activity are not recorded or analysed.
2. It is the patients themselves who determine whether they are to be treated in a public or private capacity.
3. There is incontrovertible evidence that the reports currently in circulation are inaccurate.
4. Due to the present fiscal difficulties there is growing pressure on hospital managers to maximise the income to hospitals that is generated from private patients. This will support the maintenance of services to public patients that would otherwise have to be curtailed.
Read the entire submission (pdf)