Health staff plea on abolition of HSE

HEALTH staff have warned that the abolition of the HSE must bring an end to the practice of chiefs in the health service basing their decisions on bottom lines, targets and projections rather than on the patients.

Speaking at IMPACT trade union’s health and welfare division conference in Tralee, Co Kerry, the chair of the union’s health committee Sophia O’Reilly said staff had been given no clarity about what will replace the HSE or when.

“We are in the dark about service continuity as the change takes place,” she said.