Brennan Report points to managerial vacuum at the centre of health service

THE Brennan Report found three problems with the way finances are managed within the health service: no central control, no accountability and little or no information on where the money goes.

It agrees with the Prospectus Report that the unwieldy nature of the service with its myriad boards, agencies and committees is a large part of the problem.

There is a “managerial vacuum” at the centre of this network, it says, and the roles played by the Department of Health and Children are “not sufficiently defined” to address that vacuum.