Health Service Executive Reviews

Layers of administration and inefficient systems in place which have a very negative impact on the culture of the hse. No meaningful awareness of the importance of staff wellbeing and development- this of course impacts significantly on service user experience. Work environment often not fit for purpose- a culture of ‘you should be so lucky to have a computer/suitable therapeutic environments for clinical work’ etc. Excluding management structures- this is really concerning and in my experience ‘group think’ is a real problem in the hse. Poor performance management systems- under performing staff are simply moved in the system. No value placed on creativity in management and thinking outside the box- the hse is attempting to train managers in leadership etc however in my experience this is not supported on return to the job and therefore causes more frustration for managers who really want to make things better for our service users and staff. Very frustrating recruitment processes. Overall, a very challenging place to work if you really want to make a difference in the lives of service users.

I had a job that is different from most jobs because I had to see almost everything in hospitals and hse and I got to pretty much work with many workers. And they didn't even realise that I can write about it lol. There are a few problems with the business. Now nurses are awful to work with. They can't and don't work in team. There more nurses there are the more cliqueing is going not which doesn't bother me, what bothers me is that they start making problems. They don't work in team and seem to fight each other. They organise in cliques of 2-3 people and fight other employees. Instead of finding an answer they point fingers at another nurse and another nurse points fingers at the other nurse. They don't work in team. The problem is because they don't know anything and afraid to make a mistake. Also nurses seem to be more concerned with dress code of other employees, looking who went to toiled and trowed anything in bin and complain about it. It's not third world country, it's allowed to use bins and bathrooms, rather than worrying about health of patients. Also nurses are always angry, please fire these angry nurses and hire non angry nurses. it makes job atrocious and makes people not work there. There is no managers you can say it to. They are only there once per year when everything is going well. When there's a problem to be managed they disappear. Also they say patient centred care, it's actually making patients sick for longer so that patient keeps coming back with illness. it's more about making patient feel employees care, though making sure patient stay stick longer because money can't roll in from healthy people.