Experts warn Harney over private sector

TOP British public health experts appealed to Tánaiste Mary Harney yesterday not to bring the private sector into the Irish health system.

Health Minister Mary Harney believes public-private partnerships which would create more bed capacity are the way to tackle our chronic hospital waiting lists and A&E crisis.

But Professor Allyson Pollock, chair of health policy and health service research at University College London, said: “Once Ms Harney unleashes the private sector into the Irish health system there will be no pulling back - it will become a Pandora’s Box.”