Extent of efficiencies in health system still remain unclear

By Lloyd Mudiwa. A long-standing special advisor to former Minister for Health Mary Harney has said we have not yet determined what limits of efficiencies our health service can achieve. Independent business consultant Oliver O’Connor told IMT last week that the health service did not yet know what that limit was but that it also needed to measure the health outcomes in order to know “where we are”. Citing a presentation on performance indicators presented by the Resilience4health project at an ESRI/TCD conference last week, O’Connor concurred it showed some impressive headline data about what outputs the HSE was achieving…