Poor performance costs hospitals dear as 2010 budgets slashed by €14m
The biggest loser – for the third year in a row – is Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, which faces a budget cut of €2.64m, followed by Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, which will lose €1.8m. The Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore faces a reduction of €1.7m in its 2010 budget.
All the major Dublin hospitals, except the Mater, the Rotunda Maternity and Crumlin Children’s Hospital, will see their budgets cut. They include Beaumont (down €22,010), St Vincent’s (down €37,581), Connolly (down €156,148), Temple St Children’s Hospital (down €409,448), Holles Street and the Coombe maternity hospitals (down €227,411 and €282,291 respectively) and St Columcille’s in Loughlinstown (down €1.3m).
