Exposed: the litany of wasted cash in our health service
A health board employee was overpaid around 30,000 over a 10-month period and another health board paid over almost 450,000 for a site it was buying, even though the ownership of the land was not sorted out.
Going through a litany of poor financial management in the health service, Professor Niamh Brennan yesterday cited the failure of public hospitals to properly impose or collect bills for treating public patients as a classic example discovered during the preparation of the Brennan Report.
