HSE board had not signed off on winter plan
The winter plan commits to hiring the equivalent of 51 emergency medicine consultants, starting with locum doctors.
The HSE's board had not seen the organisation's €169m winter plan before it was published, and expressed concerns about commitments made in it at a board meeting two weeks after publication.
The revelations are contained in minutes of the board's meeting of October 26, two weeks after the plan was published.
