General Manager, Employee Relations, Regional People

Slaintecare and Reform of the Irish Health Service

Sláintecare signals a new direction for the delivery of health and social care services in Ireland with the potential to create a far more sustainable, equitable, cost-effective system and one that delivers better value for patients and service users. At its core, the strategy focuses on establishing programmes of work to move to a community-led model, providing local populations with access to a comprehensive range of services at every stage of their lives. This will enable our healthcare system to provide care closer to home for patients and service users, to be more responsive to needs and deliver better outcomes, with a strong focus on prevention and population health improvement. To achieve this, new ways of working, including change culture will be required in the strive to deliver enhanced patient-centered and integrated care.

HR is committed to building capacity for change and addressing the people and culture priorities that impact the organisation on an integrated basis.

Human Resources (HR) provides strategic and operational support, direction, advice, and interventions to all areas of the health service, recognising that all staff throughout the system are key to the delivery of excellent people capability and ultimately patient and service user outcomes.

The implementation of the Health Services People Strategy 2025-2028 supports the development of current and future health and social care leaders. Our shared purpose is to deliver safer better healthcare and staff and public value and collectively support the significant reform and change agenda in Ireland, particularly in light of the objectives of Slaintecare.