The real problem is lack of health reform

The leadership of the country's massively expensive health service is a mess.

The leadership of the country's massively expensive health service is a mess. The resignation last Wednesday evening of the junior health minister Róisín Shortall, following months of conflict with her senior counterpart James Reilly, is only the latest instalment in a soap opera of bad management.

Reilly's behaviour of late has seemed increasingly erratic. His latest explanation for the addition of primary care centres in his own constituency, suggested that he had suddenly ...