There’s no alternative to resourcing Health

THE healthcare directive introduced in 2014 to provide for medical treatment in other countries of the European Union, has been used by 535 Irish people since it was implemented. 

The 371 patients who used it during the first half of 2016 are more than double the 157 people who availed of the facilities during 2015.

This obviously cannot continue at that rate. Most of the treatments were orthopaedic or orthodontic.