Image: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie Image: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie THE GOVERNMENT HAS decided not to seek an extension to its deal with private hospitals and instead a new deal will be negotiated, it is understood.
In March the government reached a €115 million per month agreement with private hospitals to use all of their facilities during the Covid-19 crisis. This deal runs until the end of June and today Cabinet agreed it should not be extended. A new deal will be negotiated to allow for full access to private hospital facilities in the case of a second wave of Covid-19.The current agreement has been described as “a bad deal for taxpayer”. Private consultants have also criticised the deal, claiming they are losing money under the current model.
Yet another terrible decision by Minister Harris, no planning no foresight . Utter madness
The kings of negotiation!! 🤨🥴
Demand tbe money back & take the hike the public gave you & you party at the election
A new deal !! Why is this not cancelled 🙄 joke
Probably to give them more money, if they had any backbone they'd take back what they gave them before
Our household pays tax to fund the public health service by working, we don't use public service. We then pay vhi again for own health care. I have a chronic condition. Doing this we stay working, paying for public health service. It is time to sort public health service.
Hopefully they will clear the backlog of public patients. But the question still remains what about the 2 million plus private patients left without treatment for month's.
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