The monograph Critique of "Shaping a Healthier Future": A Strategy for Effective Healthcare in the 1990s evaluated the previous national health strategy as preparation for the new version which the Government was preparing. It reviewed the strategy development process and concluded that it was...

Hospital services in Ireland have developed into a complex mixture of public and private provision with private patients being treated in public as well as private hospitals. This interweaving of public and private medicine is driven to a large extent by the large proportion of the population...