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Fraud squad probes HSE missing millions
Jun 26th
MOST of the cash in a €2.35m fund routed by the HSE to a union-administered bank account cannot be accounted for, the Irish Independent can reveal.
The money was supposed to pay for a training scheme for low-skilled health workers, but instead, some of it was spent on foreign trips that involved union officials and senior civil servants.
27% increase in surgery cancellations
Sep 29th
Over 9,000 surgeries have been cancelled in hospitals around the country in the first half of this year.
According to figures received by Fine Gael through a parliamentary question, there has been an increase of 2,000 – or 27% – in cancelled operations up to June.
Swine flu at second Cavan school
Sep 11th
A second school in Co Cavan – Breffni College in Cavan town – is dealing with an outbreak of human swine flu.
The principal of the secondary school contacted the HSE yesterday after a number of pupils presented with flu-like symptoms.
Following discussions with medical experts, the principal decided that the school should remain open.
Court orders 30 pharmacies to sell medicine
Aug 9th
THE HSE has secured a High Court order compelling more than 30 pharmacies based in the east of the country to continue to provide medicine to the public under the terms of the community drugs schemes.
The dispute between the health service and pharmacists is now entering its second week.
Patients urged to contact HSE helpline
Aug 2nd
Patients on state drug schemes are being advised to contact the HSE helpline as further disruption to services is expected in the coming days.
Several hundred pharmacists have stopped dispensing medication under the community drug schemes in response to cuts to their fees – which they say is threatening their livelihoods.
The HSE said more than 1,100 pharmacies are still dispensing medicine as part of the schemes.
But the Irish Pharmacy Union disputes this figure and said there has been widespread disruption to patients as HSE contingency plans are failing to cope with demand.
The HSE helpline is 1850-241-850.
€180,000 each day for ‘doing nothing’
Jul 14th
UP to 1,000 surplus HSE staff are still being paid €180,000 a day although they have no work to do.
The staff are costing an estimated €67m a year in salaries at a time when resources are so stretched that crucial health services are being slashed.
Among the HSE staff targeted were around 200 of its middle managers who earn salaries of up to €83,000. Their numbers have increased from just 10 in 2000 to more than 700 now.
The €67m-a-year cost contrasts sharply with the impact of swingeing cuts at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin.
HSE chief says Crumlin budget has not been cut
Jul 7th
The chief executive of the HSE has told an Oireachtas committee that Crumlin Children’s Hospital is in difficulty because it has failed to make non-frontline savings.
Professor Brendan Drumm says the hospital has not had its budget cut by €9m and its funding has actually increased by 37% in the last three years.
15 Stolen Laptops from HSE
Jun 17th
Investigations are continuing after 15 laptops weres stolen from HSE offices in Roscommon over the weekend…
13 of the laptops are encrypted – which leaves information on the remaining two available to anyone.
The HSE’s now waiting for an incident report on one of those laptops, to see if it contains clincially sensitive details.