Results 1-7 of 7 for waste management speaker:John Crown

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: .... If they work in hospitals they are usually desperately under-provided but if they work in some other setting they tend to be somewhat less under-provided which tells us something about the management practices in the hospital system which tends to impose great degrees of constraint. We have an extraordinary shortage of physiotherapists which I have spoken about before. We have high...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

John Crown: ...equivalent specialists in the United Kingdom, reflecting the sense that there is a much higher rate of risk associated with practice here. I tried to find the exact figures. I teach a course on risk management and oncology. The United States is No. 1, but historically Ireland and New Zealand have been behind it. There will be much cultural analysis of what aspects of the Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

John Crown: ...disasters which we have had. I request the Deputy Leader to get a commitment from the Department of Health that a report card will be submitted to us on the results of this very expensive - and I believe utterly wasteful - management consultancy exercise that Professor Robert S. Kaplan conducted on behalf of the HSE at huge cost and at a time that we have such a shortage of nurses,...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

John Crown: ...as a means of improving safety. There is no doubt that when one has as internally discordant set of health services as we have in this country that it is essential that we think of better ways of managing medical records and facilitating appropriate transferral of sensitive information. However, it is important to put this in a context. There is a colossal problem with medical records...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

John Crown: ...at St. Vincent's Hospital told us there would be further crisis meetings on various evenings next week. This is prolonging the politics of the last health care atrocity; it is crisis management. The unit has been planned for years and open for five months. The system as it currently stands is not geared to making appropriate forward planning and everything is done on a reactionary...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

John Crown: ...administrators. Everyone but them had a vested interest. I became so tired of hearing this that I decided to enrol in a relatively arduous two-year MBA programme to study health policy and health management at the Smurfit school. It has been one of my best decisions. The first lesson we were taught on the first day was the difference between management and leadership. I fear that what...

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

John Crown: ...new year and were stunned that they could not have a shower at any time of the day. I am not trying to make a case for privilege but for a real problem with infrastructure. During the year, the manager of a Cork council stated that 50% of publicly provided water in Cork is wasted. I am sure the Minister of State is familiar with these figures throughout the country. We have a major...