Health
Tony O’Brien: HSE’s more honest winter plan avoids the ritual pain points of bogus targets
Unusually, this year health minister Stephen Donnelly has produced a transparent list of funded initiatives that, in the short to medium term, are capable of improving the quality of the health service
The HSE winter plan is a ritual feature of the annual political calendar. Published last week, the latest plan sets out how over €169 million has been allocated to mitigate the predictable and inevitable pressures on the health service between now and the end of March next year.
It is a considerable sum of money, and it is significant that €70 million of it is recurring funding, while the balance is in the form of ...
