Frontline services to suffer as 3,200 leave

FRONTLINE services will be hit by a further planned reduction of 3,200 staff this year, the chief executive of the HSE has admitted.

Cathal Magee said that about 85% of all staff who worked in the health system provided frontline services.

The HSE warned in its national service plan for 2012 that it would be impossible to avoid an impact on frontline services.