I started a leadership and management development course in the hospital last week and the first lecture today was on working as part of a team and i thought this slide really summed up our health leadership, particularly in the last 48hours 1/

First point - the government seem to be expecting NPHET to take a wider view than making recommendations purely on public health which is their brief. If that is the case then this should be made known to all. 2/

Second point probably refers to a longer term issue of not building in resilience to the health services in terms of critical care capacity and the many other projects that would help in this situation (EHR anyone??) 3/

Third point has been really seen in the last 48hours where political point scoring has taken precedence over a clear and coherent message and i believe this will lead to the message being diluted and not being as effective 4/

The forth point was really summed up better than I ever could by @ProfSuperJunior in this thread this morning. https://twitter.com/ProfSuperJunior/status/1313358723893649408?s=19 5/

I'm not arguing for any course of action here, just a single coherent message everyone can understand from @CMOIreland @MichealMartinTD @LeoVaradkar @DonnellyStephen @paulreiddublin @HSELive and anyone else speaking on the matter 6/

The long and short of it is we need our leadership to work as a team so that the rest of the members of the team, frontline workers and the entire population can buy in to what's going to be required over the next few months 7/7