HSE audit: €2m paid to consultants 'deviates from pay guidelines'

HSE audit: €2m paid to consultants 'deviates from pay guidelines'

A HSE internal audit has found that €2m was paid to hospital consultants to reduce waiting lists at Naas General Hospital (NGH) outside of public pay policy guidelines

Consultants pocketed €2m outside of pay policy rules

Two million euro was paid to hospital consultants to cut waiting lists at Naas General Hospital – outside of public pay policy guidelines, writes Helen Bruce. A HSE audit found that, between 2022 and last year, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) paid €1.5m directly to consultants. It paid another €473,320 to two companies, the directors of which are Tallaght University Hospital consultants. The November 2025 audit, released under FOI to…

‘Fee per patient’ insourcing arrangement saw consultants paid at ‘significantly higher levels’ compared to overtime rates

Naas General Hospital audit also found ‘no evidence’ of competitive tender processed used in awarding insourcing contracts to two companies where TUH consultants acted as directors The post ‘Fee per patient’ insourcing arrangement saw consultants paid at ‘significantly higher levels’ compared to overtime rates appeared first on Irish Medical Times.