Slaintecare is supposed to be the all-party solution to the problems of our healthcare system. But will it turn out to be too complex to actually work? What if, rather than waiting for the HSE to be re-engineered, we found a way to give everybody who needs it access to Ireland’s existing private healthcare system?
Sláintecare was originally put forward in a report by an all-party Oireachtas committee. You can read a summary prepared in TCD. The core ambition is to provide fast, inexpensive or free care in the public system.
The Slaintecare Implementation Plan , presumably written by civil servants and management specialists, is a different sort of beast. It focuses on ten broad strategic moves to make our health system more unitary, monolithic and efficient, but it doesn’t really amount to a plan for delivering the specific changes sought by the Oireachtas Committee. The Plan is sketchy on how Sláintecare will actually achieve its ten-year ambition with no activities planned beyond 2021 . It depends on a major renegotiation of