HSE defends ‘increase’ in number of managers it employs

The HSE has defended the number of managers it employs after a senator claimed a re-categorisation — which appears to show a reduction — had instead masked an increase in management numbers.

Senator Colm Burke raised the query at a meeting of the Oireachtas Health Committee and said he had previously been told there was approximately 5,000 staff at management level within the HSE.

Figures provided to the committee showed, at the end of 2014, the numbers employed at management level, in whole time equivalents, stood at 4,721.