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Concerns raised by the general manager of University Hospital Galway that the facility cannot function as a centre of excellence due to financial cutbacks as well as its effects on patient care were a “damning indictment”, the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

“Horrendous” is how the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described the fact that almost 90 beds have now been closed in local public hospitals due to budgetary cutbacks.

Or should it be one less for you, big bonus for me. It beggars belief that a time when frontline medical staff and services are being battered consistently by reduced budgets, the CEO of the Health Service Executive would be paid a handsome €70,000 bonus. While Professor Brendan Drumm hasn’t actually drawn down the lucrative bonus, nor has he sanctioned it himself, it has been approved by the board of the HSE and Health Minister Mary Harney.

The Health Service Executive spent over €7 million on renting premises in the HSE western region counties of Mayo, Roscommon and Galway in 2007 and 2008.

As the HSE fails to meet the needs of children like Jamie Murphy who are waiting and waiting for life saving operations every day, others who work in the HSE are enjoying exorbitant salaries and even better bonuses for their efforts.

A new system of readmission to hospital for oncology patients is being developed, Beverley Flynn TD has been assured.

Professor Tom Keane, director of the National Cancer Control Programme, has pledged his support to Mayo TD Beverley Flynn for the provision of the planned new €7m oncology unit at Mayo General Hospital.

Only the Garda Síochána escaped the wrath of Judge John Neilan at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court. Not even Thierry Henry and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were spared.

Only the Garda Síochána escaped the wrath of Judge John Neilan at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court. Not even Thierry Henry and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were spared.