Seanad debates
Tuesday, 13 May 2003
Health Service: Statements.
I have met people who tried to reduce costs in the health service but found it impossible to do so. I have had a three hour conversation with an individual who purchased an RSI scanner five or six years ago. I do not have time to outline, month by month, the difficulties he had in trying to get the machine accepted in the health service, despite the fact that he was providing the local hospital with a machine that could produce first-class, up-to-date RSI scans for about 55% of the cost. The consultants in the local hospital would not refer patients to the fully operational, supported and properly run clinic. I do not know why such people have a grip on the system, just as I do not know the reason we cannot renegotiate the contracts of all the consultants in Ireland. We need a new clinical approach.
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