Our nearest and dearest neighbours are engaged in leaving the European Union. For Ireland, the experience may be less like the neighbours moving, than them moving, taking their house, garden, the road outside, and possibly the party wall, as they head off to roam the world. As a result, like most other EU countries, Ireland is spending a lot of time on damage limitation. There’s been a good deal of attention paid to key sectors of our economy, agriculture, and finance, and our politics, notably the rights
Nick Fahy and colleagues have written a paper in the Lancet which looks at three possible scenarios for Britain. They describe these as a ‘soft Brexit, hard Brexit, and failed Brexit’ respectively. These are respectively a deal similar to the EEA, a deal similar to CETA, and no deal, with WTO terms of trade. None of these is particularly cheerful. They have chosen to use the WHO Health System Framework (See figure) for their analysis, and so am I.
WHO Framework for Health systems (Source :- World Health Organization. Everybody’s business – Strengthening health systems to improve outcomes. WHO’s Framework for Action. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2007, Page 3.)