Failure to tackle vested interests is turning a sick health service into a dangerous one.

This year over a billion pounds of our money will be spent on the health service, yet cutbacks are making the hospitals dangerous and public patients can't get urgent operations. One in twenty people in the Irish workforce works in the health system, yet wards full of geriatric patients are left unattended/

Fintan O'Toole, Mary Jane O'Brien and Mark Brennock find out why.