"Italy risks cutting 10,000 ops per day" – alarmist, says govt
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The Italian government has sought to assuage what it sees as an "alarmist" response by the medical community to recently-announced austerity measures. Surgeons have warned that the planned cuts in healthcare spending (www.clinica.co.uk, 27 May 2010) will risk reducing the number of surgical interventions by 10,000 per day.