FG’s health policy has been ‘exposed’, says FF

PARTS of Fine Gael’s health policy have been “significantly exposed”, Fianna Fáil has said, following criticism of the Dutch model on which it is based by one of the world’s leading journals on health policy.

An analysis in the journal, Health Policy, found the “money follows the patient” model introduced in Holland in 2001 was “not effective and not efficient”.

But Fine Gael’s health spokesman Dr James Reilly has robustly defended his party’s policy.