HSE and minister urged to police consultants’ contracts

THE HSE and the Minister for Health must police new consultants’ contracts properly to ensure the taxpayer gets good value for money.

The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Fine Gael TD Bernard Allen, said it was up to the HSE to monitor consultants’ work properly.

He was speaking following reports that than 200 consultants in hospitals across the country have been formally warned they are seeing too many private patients in public hospitals.