In November 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding between the CSO and Department of Health (PDF 214KB)  was agreed.  The Memorandum was signed by Mr. Pádraig Dalton, Director General of the CSO, and Mr. Ambrose McLoughlin, Secretary General of the DoH.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Department of Health (DoH) are co-sponsoring a project which aims to report on health expenditure in accordance with the OECD/WHO/EU System of Health Accounts (SHA). The SHA is an international standard facilitating analysis of health expenditure (public and private) cross-classified by type of care, providers of care, and sources of funding.  The intention is to be compliant with the international SHA standard by March 2016 at which time annual reporting in this format will be mandatory for all EU Member States.

This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) sets out the arrangements that have been agreed between the CSO and the Department of Health for the operation of the SHA Project.