Health leaders have warned that Stormont's draft budget is inadequate to tackle post-pandemic waiting lists.
But the chairs of Northern Ireland's health trusts and other bodies say there are still significant shortfalls. The health service has become reliant on one-off chunks of funding either as a result of political deals or from budget reallocation exercises.image caption The health leaders are calling for an increase in recurrent funding and predictable multi-year budgets.It says: "This will not be sufficient to even cover pay and price inflation, which are recurrent inescapable pressures and are estimated to cost around £150m."
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