Harney vows cash boost for A&E crisis

SPENDING on health will be substantially increased next year, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney told a meeting of accident and emergency nurses yesterday.

Harney vows cash boost for A&E crisis

"You never achieve anything major without taking big steps, by that I mean radical reform, coupled by more resources," she declared on a day when 140 people were on trolleys in busy A&E departments throughout the country.

When next year's estimates are published later this month there will be a substantial increase in funding for health-care, she said.

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