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. Barry O'Brien:
Previously, one had drugs across numerous parts of the system. For example, one had drugs in both the PCRS and the hospital system. The information is not held in a single repository, and consequently, it is a question of going out to all those constituent parts and making sure the system is acting in a joined-up manner in order that when we are buying drugs, we are paying the cheapest prices possible right across the system. What we are doing at present is getting complete visibility on that.
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