{"id":489,"date":"2012-09-04T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T09:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/hse-cuts-hitting-elderly-and-vulnerable-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T09:15:52","slug":"hse-cuts-hitting-elderly-and-vulnerable-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/hse-cuts-hitting-elderly-and-vulnerable-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE Cuts Hitting Elderly and Vulnerable – Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

HSE Cuts Hitting Elderly and Vulnerable – Crowe<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the HSE cuts by the\u00a0 Government are targeting homehelp, homecare packages and personal assistance and that the cuts to\u00a0 agency staff and overtime will also create further difficulties in many of our public health care facilities and hospitals.<\/p>\n

Deputy\u00a0 Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n

“The cuts announced by the Health Service Executive are targeting the most vulnerable with major reductions in home help hours, homecare packages and personal assistance.<\/p>\n

“The reduction of 200 homecare packages per month combined with\u00a0 a 5.5% reduction in home help hours will mean the option of Independent living will\u00a0 not be a reality. The cut of \u20ac10 million\u00a0 in Personal Assistant hours for people living with a disability is cruel cut and will\u00a0 create huge difficulties for many vulnerable people.<\/p>\n

“The cuts\u00a0 represent an attack on vulnerable older people and others who require care in their homes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“We know from many Groups dealing with the elderly and those living with disabilities,\u00a0 that the\u00a0 home help, homecare and personal assistant services available\u00a0 was insufficient to meet their actual needs and they are now facing further reductions.<\/p>\n

“The HSE and the Government are also proposing to slash the numbers of public nursing home beds while at the same time making bizarre claims that their priority is to keep older people living in their own homes!<\/p>\n

“The withdrawal of spending on the use of agency staff and on overtime will also create further difficulties in many of\u00a0 our public health care facilities and hospitals.<\/p>\n

“The use of agency staff and of overtime have been made necessary by the continuing recruitment freeze.\u00a0 These latest cuts will now see less hospital beds, more wards and operating theatres closed across the country and longer waiting times for patients.<\/p>\n

“The old, the sick and people with disabilities in Irish society are being targeted by these cuts. The Government promise of change and improvements in the Health Service seem at this stage a vague and distant memory to the\u00a0 thousands of vulnerable people being directly effected by these latest cruel cuts.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HSE Cuts Hitting Elderly and Vulnerable – Crowe Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the HSE cuts by the\u00a0 Government are targeting homehelp, homecare packages and personal assistance and that the cuts to\u00a0 agency staff and overtime will also create further difficulties in many of our public health care facilities and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}