SHB staff overpaid by €670,000 in past three years

STAFF at the former Southern Health Board were overpaid almost €670,000 in the past three years, it has emerged.

One nurse was contacted by an official from the Health Service Executive (HSE) Southern Area, as it is now known, informing her that she had been overpaid by nearly €70,000 over the past four years due to a glitch in the payroll system.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) in the south has said it has been dealing with at least five nurses in Cork and Kerry who were facing bills of up to 5€0,000 as their payroll system had incorrectly paid them for full-time work when they had cut back their hours years previously.