'Extremely busy' private hospitals cannot support public health system 'ad hoc'

Jim Daly, CEO of the Private Hospitals Association (PHA), told the Irish Examiner that the existing relationship between public and private is “haphazard” and that there needed to be a strategic partnership established. File photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

The representative body for private hospitals has said that it cannot continue to support the public healthcare system on an ad hoc basis.

Jim Daly, CEO of the Private Hospitals Association (PHA), told the Irish Examiner that the existing relationship between public and private is “haphazard” and that there needed to be a strategic partnership established. “We can’t keep going with the haphazard relationship with the public sector,” Mr Daly said.