HSE forced to remove pay data from website

The HSE has been forced to remove from its website details of state payments to thousands of primary care health professionals.

This follows the Data Protection Commissioner threatening enforcement action against the HSE unless payment details covering billions of euro to individual dentists through the medical card system were removed from the website.

Nicola Coogan, a senior compliance officer with the commissioner, told the HSE it was a serious issue and that it was the intention of the office to take whatever enforcement steps it deemed necessary if the PCRS payments for dentists were not removed.