The Newspaper Panel
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning. You're very welcome to the show. Before we meet our panel, let's have a look at the front pages. So look, if dysfunction in the health service and hospitals is your thing, then you love the papers today. I think the technical and medical term would be they are, the papers are riddled with it. The Sunday Times is leading with St. Vincent's liver transplant service in crisis. A leaked audit of the state's liver transplant service has found evidence of unequal access high complication rates and inadequate monitoring at St Vincent's University Hospital, where transplant numbers have fallen sharply in recent years.
What are the major health service issues highlighted in the newspapers?
Interestingly, I think the transplant was one of the areas that were also looking for kind of derogations and exceptions from the public only consultant contracts. The Sunday Independent As another health service story, I blew the whistle on Harvey case at CHI. Insider calls for health minister to fast track statutory inquiry and says I 100% will be willing to testify. This is a former manager at Children's Health Ireland who is now identifying herself as the whistleblower herself. who flagged concerns around the case of Harvey Morrison Sherratt. The Irish Mail on Sunday is leading. The headline is Garda abuser quotes protected by colleagues and the force. A woman who was physically, sexually and emotionally abused by her former partner and serving Garda while she was pregnant has accused the force of failing to properly investigate their colleague.
And that is not a unique case. The Business Post has an exclusive Guinness owner plans for radical operational overhaul. I think you always know if your new boss is called Drastic Dave and he's warning of difficult changes in the need to streamline the company, then you probably should be nervous. So that's Diageo. which has seen a lot of kind of trouble and change over the last few years. The Sunday World is leading with Kinahan, I'll never get a fair trial. And that was in a conversation between their man, Ken Foy and Daniel Kinahan, who said,
How is the liver transplant service in crisis affecting patient care?
claimed that he's a victim of a witch hunt and a corrupt Irish government. That conversation happened in 2021. And the Murr is leading with the chief suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plante murder case, gave Gardaí a sample of his DNA before his death in 2024. And that is Ian Bailey's sister saying that about her brother. because he wanted to ensure, she says, that no one could say there was a problem with his DNA after he was dead and gone. OK, our panel this morning. Dr. Suzanne Crowe is a consultant in paediatric intensive care at CHI Crumlin. David Quinn is a commentator and head of the Iona Institute. Pete Lunn is the head of behavioural research at the ESRI. And Ellen Coyne is political correspondent at the Irish Times.
And good morning, everybody. Ellen, you've been following the maternity services rotunda story very carefully, and there have been a lot of developments over the weekend as well that aren't necessarily reflected in all the papers today. So bring us up to speed. Nobody's backing down here.
Nobody is backing down. This seems like an absolutely intractable dispute between the Rotunda and the state. People might have seen that the Rotunda decided to have an extraordinary general meeting of its board on Friday, where it considered some of the, I suppose, would you call them threats to its funding, its insurance status, even the Minister for Health suggesting that women who had received private care from public-only consultants might be in line for a refund. But at that meeting, the board...
You've been reporting that there are only two such cases in the first quarter of the year. Is that correct?
Only two known cases. So people might have some anxieties and think that this is like a widespread issue. As far as I'm aware, there is only one consultant obstetrician at the Rotunda who is on a public only contract who is continuing to do private care. The figure of 14 that people see of these 14 consultants who signed that contract, I understand, might relate to people who do gynecology only.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:07–0:44
2
What are the major health service issues highlighted in the newspapers?
0:44–2:25
3
How is the liver transplant service in crisis affecting patient care?
2:25–5:04
4
What whistleblower revelations are impacting Children's Health Ireland?
5:04–7:11
5
How are Gardaí handling allegations of abuse by their own officers?
7:11–9:13
6
What are the implications of Diageo's operational overhaul?
9:13–17:09
7
What recent developments are there in the maternity services dispute?
17:09–25:25
8
What is the impact of immigration on the health service and public perception?
25:25–54:09