Squeals of outrage at porkies over who gets the bacon

WERE the dogs of war unleashed this week by a jittery Government lashing out as it risks completely losing control over the escalating crisis in health funding?

It is certainly curious that, so soon after the chiefs of four of the country’s biggest hospitals took the unprecedented step of going public with their concern that cutbacks are putting patients in danger, the medical establishment got an unexpected rocket.

Leaks sprang up across the media as perk payments to leading health sector figures came to light in a clear attempt to put frontline critics of Government funding incompetence back in their (first aid) box.