L’HSE ha pagato al consulente Ernst & Young 1.449 euro al giorno per migliorare la produttività dell’ospedale
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/hse-paid-ernst-and-young-consultant-1449-a-day-to-improve-hospital-productivity/a1337108836.html
di OldMcGroin
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Shocking news article angers general public, result? Yeah probably nothing let’s be honest
Surly, they paid EY and not the consultant.
Money for nothing.
And?
That’s not expensive… it’s less than the day rate charged for *developers* on software projects.
What is this whole debate around hospital productivity that has popped up over the last few days about?
Doctors and nurses are already massively overworked in Ireland, with many working 70-hour weeks and ran to the bare-bones.
This reeks of senior management trying to pass the blame onto workers instead of trying to actually fix the healthcare crisis.
>EY’s Dr Mary Coghlan is the unit’s highly qualified director. She studied mathematical sciences at Oxford University and later qualified as a doctor at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin. A former actuary with Irish Life & Permanent, she also spent four years as a doctor at Beaumont, Blanchardstown and Drogheda hospitals. She spent four of her six years in EY’s data and analytics division before becoming a partner there in 2022.
Seems like a very reasonable chargeout rate from EY for someone with that niche set of relevant skills.
They pay EY
A consultant for €1,449 is not high.
The wages of 376,000 is bullshit, nobody works 260 days a year and especially a consultant for EY, typical you would work it out for 220 days a year
Also that is not the wages, the consultant doesn’t get paid this, EY take a cut and then they have over head which is part of the day rate which includes everything down to electricity in their offices.
This is just another article to feed the outrage.
That’s a very low fee for someone of that seniority being provided. I’ve seen people barely out of nappies being sent off by big 4 to multinationals and the multinational getting charged that much.
It’s interesting the difference in attitudes here when it comes to using public money to pay for private sector consultants in comparison to anything else.
Everything’s a waste of public money apparently, except for paying for ‘advice’ which doesn’t seem to produce any actual results.
Almost like people are defending their own patch.
Hospital “productivity” is a scapegoat that’s being leveraged to both make people forget what hospitals are for (which is to help people) and to forget who is responsible (the government). The phrasing always obscures blame. They are using so many quango’s that passing the buck is easier than ever before. They are saying that the HSE paid these guys to improve productivity, as if it’s their fault that the hospitals have record level waiting lists and that the hospitals are understaffed by overworked healthcare workers. These consultants are told by Bernard “Our hospital staff should work harder” Gloster that they need to take a broken system and mend it withmasking tape. Instead of just paying staff better and creating incentives for young healthcare professionals to stay in the country they are giving consultants a months salary per day to make the broken system work with no tools. The dehumanization of both healthcare workers and of patients by saying “productivity” as if they are a product or a service no different from tesco or gamestop is gross.
They know what they need to do and instead of doing that they are hiring third party’s to pass the blame to and that’s exactly the reason they hired consultants and didn’t hire internally. They need to gut the top levels of the HSE, they need to get more equitable working conditions for the people who actually work in the hospitals and they need to create an incentive to draw in our young healthcare professionals are create a fast track for healthcare professionals abroad coming home (This is a pretty big problem from talking to friends).
Must be nice, getting paid a life changing amount of money for most people to do a shit job.
I don’t think people understand how professional services works. Thats a very good rate for a partner and it wouldn’t be billed 365 days a year, only when the partner spends time on the project. I feel like this is a piece trying to take the heat of governments ridiculous spending and point the blame at consultancy firms.