HSE seeks SVP help caring for patients

Under-resourced public health services have asked the Society of St Vincent de Paul to help out.

SVP social policy analyst Audrey Deane said the charity had received letters from public servants in the HSE asking it to get involved in funding patient care.

“We have seen people whose own statutory services have been cut back to the extent where they can see it impacting on their patients and sometimes they ask us to get involved,” she said.