Acute Care Division

The Acute Care Division is responsible for developing and overseeing implementation of policy and performance oversight in relation to acute hospital services nationally.

This includes:

• hospital groups and the smaller hospitals framework
• policy on scheduled and unscheduled care and acute model of care
• national trauma system
• the new children’s hospital and paediatric model of care
• maternity services
• pre-hospital emergency care
• cancer services
• organ donation and transplantation services
• blood and tissue services
• patient safety and quality in acute hospitals
• North-South co-operation