Private-clinic nixers carried out in public hospital

MEDICAL staff were doing nixers in a public hospital for Barringtons private clinic in Limerick, it has emerged.

The private hospital had a financial arrangement to have tests carried out at the publicly funded University Hospital Galway (UHG) by individual staff there.

The Department of Health, on learning of the arrangement, contacted the head of the HSE, Prof Brendan Drumm, and asked him for all such work to cease.