Public Accounts Committee and Minister hears that consultant paid €40,000 in 2018 to treat patients on his waiting list at private hospital
The Health Service Executive referred aspects of the Children's Health Ireland internal report to the gardaí in June. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAThese include questions about the appropriateness of an arrangement under which it is contended a consultant was paid about €40,000 to treat 40 patients from his public waiting list at a leading private hospital in Dublin in 2018.
This report questioned whether these special NTPF clinics were needed and suggested the children could have been treated using other capacity in the public system. The new correspondence, dated July 7th, raises broadly similar issues about the alleged referral of patients to the private hospital in 2018. It contends that other consultants in the public system or private sector could have seen these patients.
Children’s Health Ireland also said there was no such NTPF initiative in 2018. CHI did not address whether other forms of State funding to cut waiting lists could have been used to fund any such private hospital treatment in 2018 or whether any staff had raised concerns at the time.
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