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Sláintecare

Sláintecare is the ten-year programme to transform our health and social care services

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    COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

    The latest information on how Ireland is responding to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Consultations

  • Public Consultation on a Draft Policy for Patient Voice Partners in the Irish Health and Social Care ...

    23 January 2023

  • Public consultation on the proportionality of proposed legislative amendments to the Health and Social ...

    11 November 2022

  • Public consultation on a draft Policy Framework for Open Disclosure in the Irish Health and Social Care ...

    29 August 2022

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Publications

  • National Screening Advisory Committee Annual Report 2022

    19 May 2023

  • Appointments to the board of the National Treatment Purchase Fund:

    16 May 2023

  • Prompt Payment Returns of Agencies of the Department Q1 2023

    16 May 2023

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Press releases

  • Minister for Health announces General Practitioner (GP) training places to increase by one third by 2024

    2 June 2023

  • Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022 passes Houses of the Oireachtas

    30 May 2023

  • Ministers for Health receive government approval to introduce legislation to ban the sale of vaping ...

    30 May 2023

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    Stephen Donnelly

    Minister for Health

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    Mary Butler

    Minister of State with responsibility for Mental Health and Older People

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    Hildegarde Naughton

    Minister of State with responsibility for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy,  Government Chief Whip

Senior management

  • Robert Watt

    Secretary General

  • Professor Breda Smyth

    Chief Medical Officer

  • Rachel Kenna

    Chief Nursing Officer

  • Niall Redmond

    Acting Assistant Secretary, Primary Care Oversight and Performance Division

  • Siobhán McArdle

    Assistant Secretary for Social Care, Mental Health, Drugs Policy and Unscheduled Care Division

  • Tracey Conroy

    Assistant Secretary, Acute Hospitals Oversight and Performance Division

  • Derek Tierney

    Assistant Secretary, Health Infrastructure Division

  • Greg Dempsey

    Deputy Secretary, Corporate Affairs Division

  • Muiris O'Connor

    Assistant Secretary, Research and Development and Health Analytics Division

  • Louise McGirr

    Assistant Secretary for Health Sector Employment and Industrial Relations Policy Division

  • David Smith

    Chief Operations Officer, Corporate Operations Office

  • Kenneth Mooney

    Principal Officer, Strategic HR

  • David Leach

    Principal Officer, Press and Communications

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