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Replying To cluichethar:  "I read a few years ago that the HSE has two to three times as many paper pushers as its UK equivalent. I don't know if it is still that way but ridiculous if it is. Of course the easiest way cut unemployment is for the Government to hire."
From my experience working in the DSP things won't be changing in a hurry. It's extremely difficult to introduce any form of process improvement or performance metrics without absolute uproar.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3983 - 19/10/2025 11:43:42    2640608

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Replying To cluichethar:  "I read a few years ago that the HSE has two to three times as many paper pushers as its UK equivalent. I don't know if it is still that way but ridiculous if it is. Of course the easiest way cut unemployment is for the Government to hire."
I thought one of the big reasons for a bloated middle management in the HSE was to do with how the health boards were scrapped and incorporated into the HSE. But maybe that's the same principle at the end of the day, instead of making redundancies they just kept people on even though the roles could have been stream lined.

FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 414 - 19/10/2025 12:16:14    2640614

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Replying To cluichethar:  "I read a few years ago that the HSE has two to three times as many paper pushers as its UK equivalent. I don't know if it is still that way but ridiculous if it is. Of course the easiest way cut unemployment is for the Government to hire."
That doesn't surprise me. It's a long time now since Brian Cowan described the HSE as Angola - which had problems at the time. They are all civil servants so, secure employments and pensions. I think I remember something last year where the HSE had been allocated x amount of money to hire more medical staff. On inspection it was found that they had spent the bulk of it on "administration staff". It is and has been out of control for years.

Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1895 - 19/10/2025 12:30:55    2640618

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