Does the HSE need to invest in pigeons?

They're not very good at communication.

It is claimed that the greatest long-distance flight recorded by a pigeon is one that started at Arras in France and ended in Saigon, Vietnam. The distance is 11,600km and the journey took 24 days.

Recently I had to engage with The HSE. Or the misfortune to, bad luck or I must have been a terrible person in a previous life, to be dealing with a level of hair-pulling, teeth-gnawing, rage-inducing HSE communications or lack thereof. 

It took St Vincents Hospital, Dublin, 3 months to send an urgent letter from one consultant to another at a distance of fewer than 11,600ft never mind kilometres. So the obvious question is, if consultants take that long to get a letter to each other and are incapable of emailing each other, should the HSE start investing in pigeons? 

Even more recently, I had to visit the accident and emergency ward. Quite frankly I’d prefer to visit the frontline in the war in Ukraine than ever set foot in another Irish accident and emergency unit again. 

We had an urgent ref…