Hospital care should have been the issue of Election 2024

Imagine a never-ending economy class flight with no entertainment and you have a close picture of many of our hospitals. These are not the places of care or sanctuary they should be, writes Professor Rónán Collins
Hospital care should have been the issue of Election 2024

The mounting build-up of the daily psychological injury of hospital overcrowding is the real cause of the phenomenon of burn-out in healthcare staff. File photo

Ask your politician would they have their own healthcare in your local teaching hospital?

Despite all the press coverage of hospitals in the last 12 months, it doesn’t seem to be the hospitals that are exercising the nation’s concerns. Vox pops seem to suggest it is housing, price of groceries, energy inflation that are the burning issues of the election. 

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