Hospital waiting lists reach more than a million patients for the first time
Consultants warn of ‘severe knock-on consequences’ for those denied vital procedures
National Treatment Purchase Fund Board
Doctors paid thousands more for special waiting list clinics than normal contracts
Consultant services to clear waiting lists at Naas General Hospital were paid on fee-per-patient basis, audit finds
Waiting lists: Patients waiting 18 months or more increased in the majority of Irish hospitals in 2025
Across the three waiting list types – inpatient, outpatient, and GI endoscopy – 894,369 people were waiting for treatment last year
St James’s Hospital apologises over unauthorised €4.7m payment for services
Chief executive Mary Day says failure to use public tender process was ‘driven by urgent patient needs’ in cancer and cardiology’
St James’s Hospital paid €1.4m to firm run by staff ‘to meet urgent patient need’
Management to apologise for securing radiology services in 2024 without following official procurement rules
Health service failed to meet goal of cutting hospital waiting lists in 2025
NTPF figures show 64 per cent of the 750,000 patients on hospital waiting lists were waiting longer than target times
Nearly 100 non-urgent patients found to have cancer by service queried by spending watchdog
Hospital says it does not have enough core staff as it responds to controversy over €1.44m in spending to company owned by staff
Pandemic payments to health staff had weak controls and governance gaps, HSE audit finds
More than 200,000 personnel received €1,000 payment in recognition of their work during Covid-19 at cost of €211 million
Concerns around insourcing fed in to row over funding at Beaumont Hospital
Insourcing has been part of Government’s drive to reduce waiting lists but has become multimillion-euro industry
Beaumont Hospital sought €25,000 for patients already funded by HSE, auditors find
National fund suspended insourcing payments to Beaumont last April on foot of ‘potential financial irregularities’
Eyecare group Veonet to create 160 jobs with five new clinics in the Republic
The European group is also considering further acquisitions with details set to be announced over the coming months
CHI board concerned three years ago over insourcing in hospitals
HSE chiefs to update Oireachtas committee on use of private companies which used public-service personnel and facilities after hours to reduce waiting lists
Garda deemed report into potential CHI waiting list irregularities ‘not suitable’ for investigation
Confidential document on work culture and use of funding to cut public waiting lists was leaked widely in the media earlier this year
Three hospitals paid consultants all the NTPF money received for waiting-list schemes
Naas, St Michael’s and Kerry hospitals disclosed they had failed to comply with memorandum of understanding with agency, review reveals
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