Consultants face action over form delays

Consultants will be named and shamed for failing to sign off on treatment forms that are delaying €60m in reimbursed payments from health insurance companies.

Yesterday, Tony O’Brien, the HSE director general designate, said names would be published and individuals could be disciplined if they continued to neglect to sign the forms.

Speaking to TDs and senators at the Oireachtas Committee on Health, Mr O’Brien said: “There is a significant problem with delayed signing of forms following the completion of treatment by some consultants in some hospitals.