Search for a report

This chapter examines the State Claims Agency management of the Clinical indemnity Scheme.

This report examines the payment of public money to the Fund, and how the money in the Fund was managed and used.

This is a report examining the overall work of the Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service Forum and outlines, the partnership arrangements that operated at national, area and local level, the results of project evaluations, how funding under the Action Plan for People Management was administered and the arrangements to recover the balance of funding not utilised including funds from other State sources.

This is a report covering HSE Procurement and the results of a review of the extent to which framework agreements and contracting have been implemented since 2007, the changes in inventory management, information systems to support procurement management and the savings being achieved on procurement adjustments by the HSE. It also examines conformance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 40/2002.

This is a report that examines the moving to Primary Care Teams(PCT)s, which involves reconfiguring primary care in a way that moves from having a set of independent disciplines to one where those professional staff would function in a team setting. It would also involve linking the team to wider HSCNs and to the hospital system. This reports covers specifically the current status of development including, how the overall change is being managed the arrangements for resourcing and locating of teams and the linkage of PCTs with other services.

This is a report that examines the development of Primary Care Centres, through the progress made to date in accommodating Primary Care Teams, how the options for provision of accommodation were evaluated by the HSE and the administration of the preferred option, which was leasing of accommodation.

This chapter examines the sample of consultancy and external support services in the following respects, how the service was acquired, how delivery was monitored, how costs were controlled, whether the delivery of the assignment was as expected. The focus of the chapter is on the processes employed by the HSE in administering the consultancies.

This is a report examining the extent to which the State’s property interests are being protected in relation to the capital funding provided to St Vincent’s Healthcare Group. The focus of the examination was on the HSE procedures and relates solely to its financial responsibilities.

This is a report examining a set of issues relating to the management of voted funds by the HSE including: the manner in which the HSE managed resources in light of staff reduction measures, information gaps in the records of the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS), the financial impact of certain scheme overlaps, how risks arising from dual eligibility under dental schemes were being managed and how delivery of dental treatment is verified, the percentage of private patients being charged for their accommodation in public hospitals and the scope for increasing income from that category of patient and the arrangements for monitoring by the HSE of voluntary hospitals.

This is a report examining the arrangements in operation for procuring private nursing home facilities under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme and the relative cost of facilities, how the HSE is managing the cost of nursing home care and the inspection arrangements for nursing homes.