Nursing union tells #BBCNolan we are at breaking point in our health service now #budgetcuts

Aug 22, 2014, 08:46 AM

'I will not impose cuts that would "destroy our health service". The message from our Health Minister - Edwin Poots. He has warned patient safety would be "compromised" by the cuts proposed and said he was not prepared to do it. The DUP MLA said his department faced a £140m shortfall and he blamed Sinn Féin for not agreeing a welfare reform deal. Janice Smyth of the Royal College of Nursing tells us we are at breaking point in our health service