Our response to savage HSE cuts

The proposed HSE cuts to home care services do not make human or economic sense. Older & Bolder is sending a strong message on air and in print that these cuts must be reversed. Scroll down to see coverage of our response - the most recent items appear first.

We’re hoping you too will play your part by contacting your local TD and telling them these savage cuts must be reversed and encouraging your friends and family to join our Make Home Work campaign.

31 August 2012 Press Release p.m.
Older & Bolder welcomes the Tánaiste's public naming of the HSE cuts as ‘regrettable’ and we urge him to translate his misgivings into action. Older & Bolder is calling for the immediate reversal of the cuts and is looking to have an urgent meeting with the Tánaiste to this effect ... [read on]

31 August 2012 Press Release a.m. 
Older & Bolder is calling on Minister James Reilly TD to reverse the cuts to Home Care Services announced yesterday by the HSE. Ms. Patricia Conboy, Director of Older & Bolder said : “We want to remind Minister Reilly of his own words in opposition in 2010 when he highlighted what was wrong with the HSE approach to cost-cutting.  It was, he said, ‘the lazy, easy way out to hit frontline services and hurt patients rather than find the necessary savings within waste and inefficiencies at the HSE’ ... [read on]

31 August 2012  Irish Times Front Page
... Older and Bolder described them as “tantamount to turning off the life support machine on services which were already thinly spread” ... [read on]

31 August 2012  Irish Times Article
Groups shocked by scale of HSE cutbacks: The director of Older Bolder, Patricia Conboy, said the cuts to homecare services were truly shocking and tantamount to turning off the life-support machine on services which were already thinly spread ... [read on]

31 August 2012 Other Newspaper Articles

Irish Daily Mail: The savage HSE cut that will see 600,000 home-help hours go, agency staff halved .. but there’s zero sign of Dr Reilly [no online version]
Irish Examiner:  €130 m in health cuts, but no sign of Reilly [no online version]
The Star: Sickener: HUNDREDS of sick people will be stripped of vital home help hours and care packages [no online version]

30 August 2012 Drive Time RTE Radio 1 Interview 
Minister Reilly has questions to answer. We were on RTE Radio’s Drivetime yesterday speaking out against the devastating cuts proposed by the HSE to home care services. Use this link to listen back to the programme and fast forward to 01:27:40 to hear our interview.

30 August 2012 Press Release
HSE CUTS ATTACK THE OLD, YOUNG AND DISABLED PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN HOMES
The cuts to Home Care services announced by the HSE today are truly shocking and tantamount to turning off the life support machine on services which were already thinly spread ... [read on]