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The scheme includes new A&E facilities and cancer care facilities.
The review also found that the Beacon’s vaccination centre strayed from HSE advice on pre-preparing vaccine vials.
Minister Stephen Donnelly said his department received the HSE review on Monday.
The VHI had said in March that its CEO had received treatment for cancer at the Beacon Hospital.
Details of a review into the Beacon Hosptial’s vaccine allocation are being finalised today.
The Beacon has ordered a review after teachers from a fee-paying school were inoculated at its vaccination centre.
Paul Reid said there is no rationale as to why teachers in a private school were given the vaccine.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said he’d be interested to know what alternatives were explored by the hospital.
Until today, the Beacon Hospital had been the only private hospital not to sign up to the deal.
The Beacon has chosen not to join a surge capacity agreement between private hospitals and the HSE.
Beacon Hospital has not signed up to allow its ICU capacity be used by the public system.
A RTÉ Prime Time programme last week looked at purchasing officers who broke the rules of their employment.
An RTE investigation found that staff accepted gifts from a supplier.
UPMC Ireland said that a ‘generous offer’ was made by the businessman.
UPMC Beacon Hospital is the only hospital in Ireland to provide the treatment.
Clinical trials of a vaccine on patients at high risk of developing the disease has produced results which researchers say could spare patients the risk and inconvenience of invasive tests such as colonoscopies.