Financial software at HSE in need of overhaul: Reilly

Financial control systems in the HSE are clearly in need of overhaul, Health Minister James Reilly said yesterday.

“I was astonished to hear that last year we had 1,700 different software systems operating throughout the health service, many of which are not connected to each other,” he said.

He believed that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would give the HSE’s business case for funding to develop a new financial system serious consideration.