The HSE implemented a new €82m finance system, designed to streamline payments, at the end of June for hospitals in the eastern region , Tusla and other HSE corporate services. Photograph: iStockAt least 7,000 HSE service providers are still waiting for overdue payments due to issues with a new multimillion euro IT system which was designed to streamline payments. .
More than two weeks ago the HSE asked for suppliers to bear with it as it attempted to “quickly resolve” the payment issues which run into millions of euro. Management sources said the 30-day payment grace period ended for a lot of the service providers. The HSE acknowledged that it knows many suppliers may be facing financial pressure as a result of the IT problem, which it claims is a “temporary issue”.
The HSE implemented the new €82 million finance system, designed to streamline payments, at the end of June for hospitals in the eastern region , Tusla and other HSE corporate services units. The HSE in an update to The Irish Times has said that “currently there are approximately 7,000 invoices which are overdue, or due for payment” by Saturday of next week. Two weeks ago that figure stood at 25,000 supplier invoices being overdue.