HSE spends €47m on health service managers’ wages

It is claimed in reports today that more than €47m a year is being spent on wages for health service managers.

The Sunday Business Post says the number of senior HSE staff earning more than €75,000 a year has almost doubled in the year from January 2005 to the beginning of 2006.

The Health Services Executive said that many managers progressed onto the higher wage scale because of a pay rise under the Sustaining Progress agreement.

Two thirds of the annual €12bn health budget is spent on staff salaries.