‘Little reform’ was seen in first year of Government

By Dara Gantly. While the new Government displayed a “voracious appetite” for reform when it took office a year ago, the health service has been starved of any radical changes, with “surprisingly little” in way of change achieved, the outgoing President of the IMO has stated. “True, there have been changes in government structures and at corporate level. At the coalface, however, it is as you were — more patients, more procedures, with fewer beds, fewer staff and fewer resources. If radical reform is at hand, it feels little closer than it did that sunny weekend a year ago,” said…