HSE set to come in under budget for 2010

THE Health Service Executive’s latest performance report indicates that it will have come in under budget at the end of 2010.

At the end of November it had spent €11.791 billion, against a year-to-date budget of €11.857bn — around difference of €66m.

The report points out, however, that hospitals were running at a deficit of €86m. Community services were also running a deficit of €4.8m.