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The HSE West has been told it must deliver the same standard of efficiencies and care as it did last year, but by spending €30 million less. No mean feat one would say, but that has been the task given to the health authority in the west.

Mayo General Hospital and hospitals in the HSE West region have been defended by the director of the regional health office in light of their poor performance in the HSE HealthStat report which was published this week.

People around Mayo were gripped in a hysterical frenzy during the week when it emerged that Mayo General Hospital performed the worst out of 29 hospitals surveyed under a new HSE monitoring system. Outrage was the order of the day. They were ringing local radio with horror stories of relatives waiting hours on trolleys.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described as “astounding” the fact that the local health authority spent almost €2 million on legal fees last year.

Clinical testing continues into the Swine Flu vaccine which will be available to the Mayo public in coming months. In all it will take nine months for the vaccine to be administered to the whole community, once it is licensed in Europe.