Health budget cuts 'can be made without cutting services'

A junior minister has denied the health budget for next year is unworkable despite a warning to the HSE from the heads of four of the country's biggest hospitals over cuts.

A report on RTE's Primetime programme stated that the chief executives of Tallaght Hospital, St. James's Hospital, the Mater and Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children have warned that cuts mean some cancer patients are facing delays in treatment due to overwhelming pressures on services.