HSE chief yet to accept €300,000 post

THE Government-appointed head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has not yet formally accepted the €300,000-plus job more than one month after the Tánaiste announced his selection.

Brendan Drumm, professor of paediatrics at University College Dublin (UCD) and consultant paediatrician at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, is still in

negotiations with the Department of Health, his spokesman said yesterday.