Varadkar must ensure hospitals have ‘realistic’ budgets to tackle overruns
Irish Patients Association chairman Stephen McMahon made the call after the Irish Examiner yesterday published details of the country’s hospital budgets for the first five months of this year.
By the end of May, hospitals were already €100m over-budget — twice as high as the same period in 2013 — with some facilities spending 28% over their limits. The wider health service is expected to be €500m in the red by the end of the year. =
