Simply a disgrace. So many cuts to services and this happens (Doesn't say much for the nurses involved either)
http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...to-record-reduced-working-hours-30968876.html
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The worker, who was on reduced hours between 2002 until retirement in 2010, received €191,225 in total before the overpayment was eventually discovered.
There were 1,144 overpayments totalling €2.4m
An employee who resigned from a permanent health service job in October 2008 was overpaid €46,373 because notice of her departure was not made to the payroll department until the following June
Three full-time nurses were double-jobbing in breach of rules.
The nurses were hired on the generous agency rates while also on a full-time salary. Three other nurses were retired, but getting their full pension on top of the agency fees.
One of the full-time nurses worked in the same hospital in which she was doing agency work.
Absenteeism was as high as 14pc among management and administrators in the neurology department
And the best part
The damning audit on wastage comes a day after HSE chief Tony O'Brien warned that providing the €430,000-a-year per patient for a drug for patients suffering a rare disease would force cuts in other services.
Firefly.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...to-record-reduced-working-hours-30968876.html
Selected:
The worker, who was on reduced hours between 2002 until retirement in 2010, received €191,225 in total before the overpayment was eventually discovered.
There were 1,144 overpayments totalling €2.4m
An employee who resigned from a permanent health service job in October 2008 was overpaid €46,373 because notice of her departure was not made to the payroll department until the following June
Three full-time nurses were double-jobbing in breach of rules.
The nurses were hired on the generous agency rates while also on a full-time salary. Three other nurses were retired, but getting their full pension on top of the agency fees.
One of the full-time nurses worked in the same hospital in which she was doing agency work.
Absenteeism was as high as 14pc among management and administrators in the neurology department
And the best part
The damning audit on wastage comes a day after HSE chief Tony O'Brien warned that providing the €430,000-a-year per patient for a drug for patients suffering a rare disease would force cuts in other services.
Firefly.