Health authority withholding funds, claims nurses group

THE Irish Nurses Organisation has accused the Eastern Regional Health Authority of withholding funds and denying patients basic health care.

In a strongly worded statement issued following a meeting yesterday of its executive council, the INO called on the authority to immediately release all funds at its disposal.

INO general secretary Liam Doran said the organisation was convinced that, instead of improving the management of the capital's health system, the ERHA has proved itself "to be a wholly unnecessary administrative layer of pointless bureaucracy".