budget 2024
HSE’s 2024 plan to include ‘built-in deficit’, Bernard Gloster warns
HSE chief says funding allocated in Budget 2024 is ‘not adequate’ to support cost of running the health service
The funding allocated in Budget 2024 is “not adequate” to support the cost of running the health service, Bernard Gloster, the chief executive of the HSE, has said.
He warned that the HSE’s national service plan for 2024 will include a “built-in deficit” - “the first time in [his] memory that that will be the case” - while up to €2.7 billion would have been required in this week’s package to clear the service of ...