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Tony O'Brien

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Health

Tony O’Brien: GPs are the lynchpin of a workable health system

Community-based care is the only way forward for a healthy population in the future, so we urgently need to solve the crisis in general practice
  • Tony O'Brien
  • March 25, 2023
Health

Tony O’Brien: Playing the Covid blame game won’t help us to deal with the next health crisis

Let’s not waste time pretending there was a ‘perfect’ way our leaders could have handled the pandemic – we need real learning, not recriminations
  • Tony O'Brien
  • March 11, 2023
International Protection

Tony O’Brien: Organised racism poses a clear and present danger

The government must address the valid concerns of ordinary citizens around issues such as housing policy and access to healthcare and prevent far-right agitators from exploiting these grievances to promote their own racist agenda
  • Tony O'Brien
  • February 26, 2023
Health

Tony O’Brien: We must not sleepwalk into a GP crisis in Irish healthcare

Access to GP care remains relatively good in this country, but with factors like natural ageing, burnout and the corporatisation of GP care, we should be worried that this access could disappear
  • Tony O'Brien
  • February 12, 2023
Health

Tony O’Brien: Donnelly must avoid backlash to proposed consultants’ contract

In bypassing the relevant bodies before they have completed their member consultation processes, the Minister for Health is taking a huge gamble
  • Tony O'Brien
  • January 21, 2023
Health

Tony O’Brien: Empty sanitiser dispensers a fitting symbol of politicians’ short memory

Our politicians behave as if there is nothing between a complete lockdown and pretending that Covid has gone away, but they are totally wrong
  • Tony O'Brien
  • January 7, 2023
Health

Tony O’Brien: He got his wish to keep his job in health, but now Donnelly must produce results

Lengthening waiting lists, record high trolley counts and too few healthcare staff are just some of the problems that the minister needs to deal with urgently
  • Tony O'Brien
  • December 23, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Our medicines system would be better off without the HSE, and the HSE without it

Under-resourced and overly complicated bureaucratic, the drugs approval and reimbursement process is both a hidden waiting list and the likely subject of a future commission of inquiry
  • Tony O'Brien
  • December 10, 2022
Health

Our ‘hidden waiting list’ of delays in access to medicines is costing lives

An independent review of our entire drugs reimbursement system is urgently needed as patients wait far longer here for new drugs than in most of Europe
  • Tony O'Brien
  • November 26, 2022
Podcasts

Listen: Stephen Donnelly on the pandemic, politics and the quest for universal healthcare

In an exclusive interview, Tony O’Brien talks to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly about his baptism of fire, his relationship with former HSE boss Paul Reid, Sláintecare, and ‘finishing the job’
  • Tony O'Brien
  • November 12, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Lack of accountability will doom Sláintecare’s regional system to failure

Five years on from the launch of Sláintecare, there is still no plan to legislate for the establishment of regional health areas as entities distinct from the HSE
  • Tony O'Brien
  • October 30, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: HSE’s more honest winter plan avoids the ritual pain points of bogus targets

Unusually, this year health minister Stephen Donnelly has produced a transparent list of funded initiatives that, in the short to medium term, are capable of improving the quality of the health service
  • Tony O'Brien
  • October 15, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Donnelly gets rough end of budget stick as grand health plan at a standstill

Cancer programmes and dental health largely overlooked, funding for new medicines reduced and an under-resourced GP system all point to a budget that suits an economic rather than a health strategy
  • Tony O'Brien
  • October 1, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Sláintecare struggles show we need a new approach to policymaking

The much-touted healthcare policy has been reduced to a broadly meaningless catchphrase, with absolutely no hope of it being achieved in its ten-year time frame
  • Tony O'Brien
  • September 3, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Cowen’s silly season HSE proposal shows where real dysfunctions lie

The Fianna Faíl TD should know that there is zero prospect of his suggestion to amalgamate the roles of HSE chief and Health secretary general being taken seriously
  • Tony O'Brien
  • August 20, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Health systems will continue to decline until we change focus to quality of care

The impact of the pandemic and the legacy of the financial crash means patients and medics are paying the price for the perception that healthcare is a cost rather than a value, according to a report based on evidence gathered from multiple health systems
  • Tony O'Brien
  • August 6, 2022
Health

Main job of incoming chiefs will be to usher in new era for HSE

The pandemic emergency meant doing things differently – and the new health service hires at the top must now harness these better methods
  • Tony O'Brien
  • July 23, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: We should take the global lead on assistive tech in healthcare

Assistive technology enables people to live independent and dignified lives, and Ireland should grasp the opportunity to become a champion in this area
  • Tony O'Brien
  • June 25, 2022
Health

CervicalCheck controversy should not undermine vital screening programmes

The vindication of the rights of those who suffer harm because of negligence must be balanced by protection for schemes that save many lives
  • Tony O'Brien
  • June 11, 2022
Health

Tony O’Brien: Unacceptable for state to sit on its hands as health strike bites hard

There is more anger about queues at Dublin Airport than there is about the disruption of vital medical care. We need to get our priorities straight, and soon
  • Tony O'Brien
  • May 28, 2022

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