Health funding ‘to be based on efficiency’

FUTURE funding for the health service will be determined by the quality of patient care, not by those who shout loudest for it, the head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) insisted yesterday.

HSE chief executive, Prof Brendan Drumm, said he wanted to ensure that funding was based on efficiency. He also wants to move patients more quickly through the hospital system.

“In this country you have to remain longer in hospital than you do in any other comparable country for the same condition,” he told RTÉ news.