A woman who claimed there was a delay of 10 days in diagnosing a hip fracture after she had a fall in the Mater Hospital, Dublin has settled her High Court action for €110,000.

Hospitals are being blamed for almost three-quarters of the HSE’s budget over-spend in the health authority’s performance report.

Cutting the budgets of best performing hospitals shows how dysfunctional the health service had become under the leadership of Health Minister James Reilly, Fianna Fáil has claimed.