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The impact of austerity on the health workforce and the achievement of human
resources for health policies in Ireland (2008-2014)
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Williams D
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BACKGROUND: The global economic crisis saw recessionary conditions in most EU
countries. Ireland's severe recession produced pro-cyclical health spending cuts.
Yet, human resources for health (HRH) are the most critical of inputs into a
health system and an important economic driver. The aim of this article is to
evaluate how the Irish health system coped with austerity in relation to HRH and
whether austerity allowed and/or facilitated the implementation of HRH policy.
METHODS: The authors employed a quantitative longitudinal trend analysis over the
period 2008 to 2014 with Health Service Executive (HSE) staff database as the
principal source. For the purpose of this study, heath service employment is
defined as directly employed whole-time equivalent public service staffing in the
HSE and other government agencies. The authors also examined the heath sector pay
bill and sought to establish linkages between the main staff database and pay
expenditure, as given in the HSE Annual Accounts and Financial Statements (AFS),
and key HRH policies. RESULTS: The actual cut in total whole-time equivalent
(WTE) of directly employed health services human resources over the period 2008
to 2014 was 8027 WTE, a reduction of 7.2% but substantially less than government
claims. There was a degree of relative protection for frontline staffing
decreasing by 2.9% between 2008 and 2014 and far less than the 18.5% reduction in
other staff. Staff exempted from the general moratorium also increased by a
combined 12.6%. Counter to stated policy, the decline in staffing of non-acute
care was over double than in acute care. Further, the reduction in directly
employed staff was to a great extent matched by a marked increase in agency
spending. CONCLUSIONS: The cuts forced substantial HRH reductions and yet there
was some success in pursuing policy goals, such as increasing the frontline
workforce while reducing support staff and protection of some cadres.
Nevertheless, other policies failed such as moving staff away from acute settings
and the claimed financial savings were substantially offset by overtime payments
?and the need to hire more expensive agency workers. There was also substantial
demotivation of staff as a consequence of the changes.