HSE gives contract despite objections

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) awarded a company a €56 million contract this year, despite one of the country's biggest hospitals expressing repeated dissatisfaction with the same firm.

Dublin's Tallaght Hospital reported unsatisfactory support from the company, iSoft, "over a number of years", according to a Department of Health document released to the Irish Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act.

The company was responsible for providing software back-up for a patient management system at the hospital.