Sara Burke on McCarthy cuts ... and some alternatives

03/08/2009

Health policy analyst Sara Burke - who's post for PE on the health cuts proposed in the Bord Snip Nua report is available here - has an excellent op-ed piece in today's Irish Times.

She concludes that:

There are ways to stop waste and inefficiencies and to generate new money without hitting patient care. These are political choices that just have not been chosen. Unfortunately McCarthy’s shopping list of health cuts does not bring us much closer to them.

Read the full article here.

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