New 3 part series on Ireland’s healthcare system on TG4, Wednesday 9th December at 9.30pm
Cad tá cearr le staid an Chóras Sláinte in Éirinn? Sa tsraith úr seo, léirithe ag Below the Radar do TG4 agus maoinithe ag an Chiste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge de chuid Scáileáin Thuaisceart Éireann beidh Máire Bhreathnach ag taistil na tíre ag bualadh leo siúd gur theip an córas orthu, ag iarraidh teacht ar fhreagra na ceiste agus ag déanamh comparáid le tíortha eile, Cuba agus an Nua Shéalán ina measc.
Beidh agallaimh le saineolaithe ar nós Maurice Hayes, iar-seanadóir agus iar phríomh oifigeach an Seirbhís Sláinte , an t-ollamh Orla Hardiman ó ospidéal Beaumont i mBaile Átha Cliath, an t-Ollamh Patrick Johnston, ceannaire Ionad Ailse Bhéal Feirste, maraon le Rebecca O’Malley agus Teresa Graham, feachtasóirí ar son cúram na n-othair.
“Siad na fadhbanna ceannann céanna atá ag déanamh dochar do institiúid Éireannacha le cúig bhliain anuas is atá ag an Chóras Sláinte – iomarca tionchar ag grúpaí ar leith, bainisteoireacht lag agus teip ar an Stáit córas éifeachtach a chur i bhfeidhm” a deir Ruth O’Reilly, Léiritheoir/Stiúrthóir na sraithe seo.
English Translation
Whatever happened to healthcare in Ireland? Presenter Máire Bhreathnach travels the country meeting the people failed by the system and exploring potential solutions in countries as far afield as Cuba and New Zealand in a new 3 part series produced by Below the Radar for TG4, funded by Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
Contributors who take part in the series include the former senator and health service chief, Maurice Hayes; patient safety campaigners Rebecca O’Malley and Teresa Graham, Professor Orla Hardiman of Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital and Professor Patrick Johnston, Dean of Medicine and head of the Belfast Cancer Centre in Northern Ireland.
Series Producer/Director, Ruth O’Reilly said: “The story of healthcare in Ireland and the collapse of public confidence in it over the past five years can be said to mirror what has happened with other Irish institutions in recent times. Many of the underlying issues are the same: interest groups with too much power, a lack of transparency and accountability within the system and a failure on the part of the state to manage and regulate money and standards.”
Sa chéad clár cuirfear sábháilteacht na n-othar faoi scrúdú, chomh maith le féidireacht – agus toilteanacht lucht oibre na hearnála glacadh lena mbotúin agus réiteach na scéala a chur i bhfeidhm. Déanfar trácht ar na cásanna ba mheasa sa tír, cás scannalach Neary ina measc, chomh maith leis na botúin a déanadh minic go leor le torthaí mícheart i gcásanna ailse le bliain anuas. An bhfuil leigheas nó feabhas ar an scéal?
English Translation
Episode One examines patient safety and the ability – and willingness – of our healthcare providers to scrutinize their failings when things go wrong and to then put them right. Some of the country’s most notorious cases come into gaze, from the Neary scandal to the cancer misdiagnosis cases of the past year. Were the lessons really learned?
Transmission date:
9th December 2009
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I gclár a 2 déanann Máire fiosrú ar na leasaithe agus ar an ghearradh siar atá á chur i bhfeidhm sa chóras, sula dhéanann sí comparáid le córas éifeachtach atá ar fáil i gCuba, áit a bhfuil dhá uair líon na ndochtúirí i mbun oibre ar chostas 10% den bhuiséad anseo.
English Translation
In Episode Two, Maire looks at the reforms and cutbacks being imposed on public healthcare and then compares them with a system which runs successfully for a tenth of the cost: the Cuban system. How have they managed to prevent disease and catch it early? And how can they afford so many doctors – proportionately twice as many as here?
Transmission date:
16th December 2009
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Cad atá ós ár gcomhar amach anseo is ea ábhar díospóireachta an tríú clár. Beidh Máire ag iarraidh fáil amach cad atá beartaithe don Chóras Sláinte a bhí le chur i bhfeidhm le linn na blianta saibhre ach nár tharla fós, agus cén toradh a bhéas ar an scéal. Ina dteannta sin déanfar cur síos ar sheod an chóras sláinte i dTuaisceart na h-Éireann - Ionad Ailse Bhéal Feirste - chomh maith le trácht ar chóras ceannródaíoch maidir le timpistí sna h-ospidéil sa Nua Shealán.
English Translation
The future of our health system in our newly straitened times is the focus of Episode Three. Máire looks at how core elements of reform promised for the public health system during the boom times are still to materialise and what this could mean for the future. She also traces the story of Northern Ireland’s big healthcare success story: the Belfast Cancer Centre; and she looks at New Zealand’s radical approach to accidents in hospitals.
Transmission date:
23rd December 2009
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