A screengrab from a HSE employee survey published today
A total of 8,627 employees took part in the first ever health sector employee survey in Ireland – out of a possible 121,526. A 7.1 per cent response.
Findings include…
– 47% agreed with the statement that the HSE’s top priority is the care of patients/clients, while 26% disagreed and 11% strongly disagreed
– 43% would be happy with the standard of care provided by the HSE if a friend or relative needed treatment, while 30% would feel unhappy with the standard provided
– In terms of the overall service level within the HSE, 65% believe that service levels are deteriorating while 12% believe the overall service level is improving
Read the full study here
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*grabs popcorn*
Interesting that 1,668 males vs 6,959 females were interviewed. Not anything particular to infer from that, just interesting. I wonder if that’s the general gender breakdown of staff within the HSE.
I would think its because more women tend to work in healthcare
Hardly representative and its mostly the whiners who respond anyway. We have the 22nd best health system in the world. Hopefully make it back into top 20 this year. Go Ireland!
7% is appalling..
You don’t sample much do you you filthy casual. These numbers show a confidence level of 95% and confidence interval of 1.02, good sampling for any survey and a hell of a lot better then the usual tripe that gets fed to you.
Yeah, I do. And 7% would get you laughed out of the room.
It has nothing to do with the % size of your sample. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination
The validity of your results have everything to do with sample size. If you are happy to accept a study with a 7% response rate, good on you. I’m not, the sample is not representative and the results are massively biased and sh***.
This is how stats works. The larger the population the smaller the % size your sample needs to be relative to that sample. For example, to have the same Confidence and interval as this survey, if the population was 10000 the sample size would need to be 4800, if it was 100000 the sample size would need to be 8451. If it was 1000000 the sample size would need to be 9147. If it was 10000000 the sample size would need to be 9223.
I can’t be a**ed today munkifisht, its biased and sh***.
Shame ye can’t be arsed. Just saying something doesn’t explain it at all.
I work in the health service. The service when you can get it is good, the waste is astronomical. Hse=Cash burning machine. For our level of spend we should be 1st in the world.
Are the larger circles on the left deliberately designed to look like Hitler?
Are they happy with the standard of care a friend or family member would receive, at friend-and-family levels, or at ordinary punter levels?
47% agreed with the statement that the HSE’s top priority is the care of patients/clients, while 26% disagreed and 11% strongly disagreed
What do the 27% who don’t think the HSE’s priority is caring for patients think the HSE is meant to be doing?
37% even. I’m mathematically challenged.
Read the statement again.
I read it that they believe that the HSE (as an organisation) does not have care of patients/clients as its top priority. That doesn’t mean that they don’t think it should be the top priority. It means that they don’t believe that it is. (You know, they could and probably do have it personally as their top priority but their experience working in the HSE may lead them to believe that it is not the HSE’s top priority). If you follow.
Yup. 37% (I’d care to venture) are saying that the back-office union-chummy bureaucrats don’t give a fupp about caring for anyone but themselves.
Having worked in the HSE I can confirm that from my experience middle management are generally only worried about themselves and securing their own jobs (they’re doing a great job of it by the way, hence why doctors and nurses are being cut while these guys are secure). This is more a generalization than a rule and there were certainly management who went above and beyond for patients when needed.
But the statement I think is more on the overall policy of the HSE which is certainly not about caring for patients. If it was, government would have targeted the middle managment left over for successive failed schemes of governments past. Instead they cut frontline numbers. The goal of the HSE is to cut it’s own costs, not to provide a decent healthcare system.