Rising health costs hard medicine to swallow

Charges across the health sector are on the increase.Political Reporter Fionnán Sheahan does a check up.

ANYBODY remember the National Health Strategy?

Health Minister Micheál Martin’s jargon-filled 13 billion prescription to cure the ills of the health service was launched with great aplomb at the end of last year. It was people-centred, multi-disciplinary and would be monitored and evaluated in a designated, cohesive, integrated, focused, coordinated framework and approached with capacity, efficiency and equity.