Possibility of further cuts in Western Health Board
The Western Health Board, which has already axed over 170 part-time administrative staff, may be planning additional cuts, according to an article in today’s Sunday Tribune.
The newspaper said that these cuts will be in addition to the cuts revealed by the paper two weeks ago, which revealed that the Government was planning cuts of over €100m to the Department of Health as part of a €1bn purse tightening operation in 2003.
Sunday Tribune Editor, Martin Walls, said the cuts may also result in non-emergency services being scaled down.
“The correspondence that we have doesn't actually detail the extent of the cuts. It just makes known that the Western Health Board is projecting a financial deficit of €5.6m before the end of the year and it has indicated that it may be going back to the board in November and seeking further job losses and what they are calling control of elective emissions, which could possibly mean the curtailment of all non-emergencies,” he said.
