An executive member of the health board is to resign after being found to have “deliberately” committed inaccurate accounting in his department two years ago.

Sue Hill, executive director of finance at Betsy Cadwalader University Health Board (BCUHB), is on leave of absence from December 2022. expert investigator Was called to view the accounts.

The health board said she will not receive a financial settlement when she moves in December.

Other staff members of the health board are under investigation.

Ms Hill’s absence, which includes 12 months due to illness, came as the investigation began after auditors found “significant errors” in the health board’s accounts.

EY’s external accountants were called in for further investigation And they found what they described as “systemic cultural failings” in the finance team, where staff were said to have “deliberately” made false entries in the accounts.

An EY report in January 2023 alleged that Ms. Hill and other members of the finance team had told investigators that they were “not aware” of entries posted in the wrong fiscal year.

However, the report claimed this was “inconsistent” with the documentary evidence.

No one personally received any evidence from the errors.

Further investigations by NHS Counter Fraud and North Wales Police ended without any action being taken.

BCUHB then launched an internal investigation in May 2023, which they say is now “conclusive” in relation to Sue Hill.

Jason Brannan, deputy director of people services at the health board, said: “Sue Hill has advised the health board of her intention to resign and will leave in December 2024.

“Sue is currently on leave and has undergone significant surgery and treatment over the past twelve months and our thoughts are with her as she focuses on her health and continued recovery.”

Ms Hill told the health board in September 2024 that she was resigning.

Commenting on the ongoing investigation, Conservative MS Darren Miller said the health board and the Welsh Government should have acted more quickly.

“I think many people in North Wales will be surprised that we are almost two years on from when the scandals were exposed and this health board went back into special measures and yet no one has been held accountable for those failings. The events that have taken place have not been held,” he said.

“This is not good enough and the Welsh Government is responsible because the health board is in special measures.”

The health board was put back down special measuresThe highest level of supervision by the Welsh Government comes two months after Ms Hill’s leave of absence began.

The health board told BBC Wales that neither it nor Ms Hill wished to comment further or respond to Mr Gruffydd and Mr Miller’s statements.

A Welsh Government spokesperson said: “This is an employment matter and therefore a health board matter.”