‘Perfectly feasible’ to axe private care from public hospitals

The man behind the Sláintecare report into removing private care from public hospitals has said that doing so is now “perfectly feasible, after that it’s a question for society as to whether or not we want to do it”.

Dr Donal de Buitleir, the chair of the independent review group charged with investigating the public versus private issue, told the Oireachtas health committee that “when we embarked on this it was not based on an ambition that it is unachievable”.