Towards the development of a resource allocation model for primary, continuing and community care in the health services - Volume 2
Vega, Amaya, O'Shea, Sofie, Murrin, Celine and Staines, AnthonyORCID: 0000-0001-9161-1357
(2010)
Towards the development of a resource allocation model for primary, continuing and community care in the health services - Volume 2.
Technical Report.
Dublin City University. ISBN 1872327834
This report proposes a resource allocation model for the Irish health services based on the principle
that each Irish resident should be provided with access to health services funded from general
taxation and in proportion to their need for those services. At the moment, such a system cannot be
deployed as some necessary financial information is not available. The information could be made
available, and should be done as quickly as possible. If this information were made available, the
model proposed here, while very crude, would serve as a good starting point for resource allocation
and should be initiated as soon as possible. Any reasonable system of resource allocation would be an
improvement on the system that is currently in place.