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Mon 12 Dec 2008Patient care will be first casualty of additional cuts

ANALYSIS:It is still manifestly unclear who is in charge of what in the Irish health service, writes Sara Burke 

SOMETIMES IT'S hard not to think that the Health Service Executive is its own worst enemy. The day it published its detailed service plan for 2009, earlier this month, it quietly let slip that an additional €400 million in savings needed to be made. This was on top of €500 million savings already built into the plan. Can it still achieve it commitments without affecting patient care?

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