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Consultants in University Hospital Galway were told last year that wards and theatres would be closed, and services in the Hospital restricted if they did not return outstanding private insurance claim forms amounting to approximately 6.5 million, it has emerged.
In October 2008, 6,454,212 remained in outstanding claims for private work conducted by consultants in the Hospital during the year, according to the minutes of the Hospital”s Executive Management Team (EMT) obtained by IMN.
It was stressed at a meeting of the Team that for the Hospital to remain within budget for 2008, these claims had to be recovered immediately.Members of the Team subsequently met with the top 10 consultants in the Hospital in an effort to reduce the deficit.
However, at the next meeting of the EMT in November, it was stated that the Hospital management was ‘not receiving the necessary appropriate response from all consultants with old outstanding claims’, which was noted as a ‘disappointing outcome’.more