CUH charity audit sparks major concern

A HOSPITAL charity, set up without HSE approval, gave non-tendered contracts worth €365,000 to a single company which resulted in donor-specific projects being left unfunded.

A HSE investigation into the Cork University Hospital (CUH) Foundation has also raised serious questions over the foundation’s internal controls and procedures between 2006 and 2010.

However, it concluded there was “no evidence” of fraudulent activity among its founders — including CUH chief executive Tony McNamara, then deputy manager Tony Long, director of nursing Mary Geraldine Boyd and financial officer Terry Kiely.