Budget 2016: A shot in the arm: What the health service needs

Looking forward to tomorrow’s budget, Catherine Shanahan asks what is needed to improve the health service?

Bigger slice of the financial pie:

Since 2009, over €3.3bn has been taken out of the Health Service Executive (HSE) budget necessitating supplementary funding every year. From an all time high of €16bn in 2009, health got just over €13bn last year.