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Matt Cooper: No matter how much the new HSE boss is paid, it won’t make up for the challenges ahead

Whoever replaces Paul Reid as head of the HSE will have to try to control spending while at the same time hiring 700 consultant doctors, improving technology, solving the trolley crisis and delivering Sláintecare

HSE braces for legal claims over cyber attack

Executive is preparing to notify thousands of people whose data was stolen in last May’s breach

Paul Reid to step down as HSE chief executive in December

Reid, who led the health service throughout the pandemic, said he had no immediate career plans

Independent audit finds non-compliance exposing HSE to ‘material risk’

The health service’s handling of its €21 billion budget last year has caused concern for the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure in recent months

Donnelly confirms €71m in HSE budget was ‘not able to be validated’

Replying to a parliamentary question, the Minister for Health confirmed the issue necessitated a prior-year adjustment to the state body’s finances, chiming with concerns raised in reports on secret tape recordings

CervicalCheck controversy could ‘derail’ screening programmes, WHO body warns

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has expressed concern that the situation in Ireland could have a ‘ripple effect’ across Europe

HSE review finds over 7% of sample expenditure was unjustified

The errors uncovered in the HSE’s financial accounts will require a prior year adjustment, which is a rare amendment to past accounts

WHO in review of Irish cancer screening amid concerns that litigation poses ‘global threat’

Three working groups to produce report on best practice, drawing on lessons learned from the Irish experience

HSE Cyber Attack

HSE hits delays in contacting people impacted by cyber attack

Authority has yet to start contacting individuals affected, despite plans to begin the process by April

Experts warn firms to be on red alert for systems attacks

IBM manager and former FBI counterintelligence boss say Ukraine war has turned dial up on what was already a ‘hot period for risk’ for large public and private organisations

Medical Laboratory Scientists Association suspends strike action

MLSA has accepted an invitation to Labour Court talks

€350m HSE surplus from under-recruitment will fund Covid costs and pay restoration

The HSE’s 10,000-staff recruitment target became the subject of controversy in February, when the Business Post revealed that an official in the department had called it ‘batshit’ in an internal meeting

PHP plans to double portfolio in Ireland

Company looking to increase number of care centres it has in Ireland from 21 to 40 as part of expansion

McGrath questioned Donnelly over HSE governance after health tapes revelations

The Minister of Public Expenditure sought clarity from the Minister for Health regarding his department’s management of the HSE’s finances, in the wake of a Business Post investigation

Pfizer’s Covid-19 anti-viral drug arrives in Ireland

Paxlovid to be available in hospitals for in-patients from next week

Health tapes: Watt advised officials to take ‘minimalist approach’ to Sláintecare reforms

The secretary general of the Department of Health also warned of ‘endless claims’ from unions

Health Tapes: ‘Big lumps of money sloshing around’ – Robert Watt outlines his concerns over spending at HSE

At a top-level meeting held last January, which the Business Post has obtained a recording of, civil service heavyweight Robert Watt laid out his position on Sláintecare, the health service’s finances and dealing with public sector unions

Tony O’Brien: High levels of Covid are a policy failure, but refusing to act is a leadership failure

The reintroduction of a partial mask mandate seems a simple and proportionate response to the situation we are now in

No timeline for winding down of HSE Covid Tracker app

The app has not served its primary contact tracing function since late February

Security experts on high alert over fears of imminent Russian cyber attacks

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to herald the onset of more cyber attacks on western infrastructure, including in Ireland, according to IT security specialists