NIC-ICTU, WRDA, consultation, Department of Health, cuts, open letter, shamThe cuts are ‘not driven by necessity and are completely at odds with the needs of service users’.

In August the Department of Health (DoH) asked the five Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts in Northern Ireland to develop draft savings plans totalling £70 million to ‘deliver an annual balanced financial plan’ in 2017/18.

This despite the DoH budget being ring-fenced and supposedly protected from cuts for the next year

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