Health spending cuts - Savings must not hit most vulnerable

THE Government has to cut back on spending. Inevitably, there will be complaints about the programmes being cut.

Only last month an expert group advised the Department of Health to extend the flu vaccination scheme this winter from those aged 65 and over to everyone over 50.

The Health Service Executive advised doctors that the scheme was being extended, but the HSE has since reversed that decision and written to the doctors that the scheme is not proceeding. The HSE will supposedly review the matter next year.