Sack the patients not the nurses Mr McGimpsey

Eaten bread is soon forgotten, especially in the NHS. Health spending in Northern Ireland increased by 13 per cent last year to £3.7 billion yet three per cent proposed efficiency savings at the new Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have provoked cries of horror.

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