HSE pays €1m for reports – and then ignores advice

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) forked out more than €1 million of taxpayers’ money on two reports on health reform – and then ignored the key recommendations.

To date, €871,2000 has been spent on the McKinsey report on Organising to Deliver Integrated Care.

A key recommendation of the McKinsey report is that healthcare be delivered in “6-10 regions with a catchment population ranging between 500,000– 700,000”. However, yesterday HSE director of human resources Seán McGrath said while they had initially decided on a six region model, this had now been reduced to four.