250 complaints follow HSE budget cuts

DOCTORS have reported more than 250 complaints in recent weeks detailing how the Health Service Executive (HSE) recruitment embargo and budget cuts have hit the delivery of services and patient care.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), which is receiving the complaints by email daily, is angry at suggestions doctors are lying.

IMO chief executive George McNeice said: “Casting such aspersions is no way to do business. We are all professionals and we should conduct our business in a professional manner – with facts and concrete evidence.”