‘Sad day’ for NI if health funds handed back to Treasury, say surgeons

It would be a sad day for Northern Ireland if money originally earmarked for health was handed back to the Treasury, Mark Taylor said. Picture: Royal College of Surgeons of England/PA

It would be “a sad day for Northern Ireland” if money earmarked for health was handed back to the Treasury, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.

At the last count nearly 100,000 people were waiting to be admitted to hospital and the pandemic has exacerbated waiting lists, the RCS added.