Hospitals will overspend by €100m: HSE chief

THE head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has admitted hospitals will overspend by up to €100 million by the end of the year but said he is not concerned about it.

Prof Brendan Drumm said the overrun was not significant when taken in the context of the overall health budget of over €11 billion.

"We don't see the hospital figures as being that frightening," he said in his first media interview since taking up the post of chief executive a month ago.