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. Seamus McCarthy:
Could I make a comment on that? It is a point I have made in the report. Due to the fact that the stock take is only at the end of year, that is the amount of stock on hand that is out of date at the end of the year. If stuff is expiring on a weekly basis, that is not counted at all. That pharmacists should make a return where they are scrapping stock throughout the year is one of the recommendations I made so that there is a full estimate of what the loss is.
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