Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines

10:00 am

Mr. John Swords:

These contracts are complex. Naturally, we have clinical input into the contracts that we establish. We also have clinical engineers. We have checks and balances in our tender process that do not allow any one individual to make decisions. Let us get that clear.

The items used are not simple swap-in, swap-out implants. Their use in procedures is subject to clinical clearance. It is more complex than just swapping in and swapping out. We must go through a process to get the clinicians on side if we are to ensure that any change is correct and in the patients' interests. That is what we-----

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