Children’s Health Ireland (CHI)’s plan to reveal surgeon-specific outcome data to show how good they are has been described as “simplistic” by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO). The IMO says that, if it goes ahead, it could end up leading to “perverse incentives” for surgeons to perform better. The chair of the IMO consultants committee, Matthew Sadlier, also warned it could lead to poorer outcomes for patients. "Medicine is not football, and thus does not lend itself to direct 'league tables' and simplistic performance metrics,” he said. “We need to rebuild public trust in us, and that's one way of doing it,” she said.

Source: Irish Examiner February 08, 2026 16:24 UTC