What is the point of having private health insurance when all of the hospitals, bar one, in the UHL group cancel their elective surgeries hours before the patients are due to attend? A number of patients, both public and private, had already travelled some distance because of the lack of notice.
This hospital group continually has the highest trolley figures in Ireland without any real solution on the horizon. One purported reason for the cancellation of elective surgeries was that there was not enough staff to cover summer holidays, if you don’t believe the official version.
Can the patients with private health insurance claim any expenses for these cancelled procedures? Can patients claim for the health implications caused by these cancelled procedures?
Would this cancellation be allowed in any other hospital group in Ireland? If not, why is the whole of the UHL hospital group singled out for this unjust special treatment?
So much for levelling up in Ireland.
This hospital group continually has the highest trolley figures in Ireland without any real solution on the horizon. One purported reason for the cancellation of elective surgeries was that there was not enough staff to cover summer holidays, if you don’t believe the official version.
Can the patients with private health insurance claim any expenses for these cancelled procedures? Can patients claim for the health implications caused by these cancelled procedures?
Would this cancellation be allowed in any other hospital group in Ireland? If not, why is the whole of the UHL hospital group singled out for this unjust special treatment?
So much for levelling up in Ireland.