Surgical SHO, Supplementary Panel

The HSE Dublin and Midlands serves a population of circa 1,077,639 providing health and social care services to communities living within Dublin West, Dublin South-West, Dublin South City, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Kildare, West Wicklow and Westmeath. Currently, approximately 30k staff work within the HSE Dublin and Midlands Region providing key health and social care services with a budget of €3 billion.

The region has 4 Integrated Health Areas, serving a population of around 300,000 and take account of local geographies, population size, needs and services. The IHA areas are HSE Dublin South City and West, HSE Dublin South West, HSE Kildare and West Wicklow and HSE Midlands and the Integrated Healthcare Managers are in post since October 2024. IHAs bring together both acute and community services as well as other non-HSE providers and are crucial to supporting and enabling integrated care. Within the 4 Integrated Health Areas there are 9 acute hospital (model 4s and 3s, mix of statutory and voluntary providers) delivering a full range of acute hospital, women and children’s services, in addition to specialised radiation and oncology care. There are also 6 integrated care hubs/csts and 20 Community Health Networks who together will serve the population health needs of our area.

The reform programme for HSE Dublin and Midlands provides an opportunity to shape the future of health and social care in a rapidly changing environment and to continue to implement safer better health care through integrated services. Health Regions will be the primary service coordination and delivery units for the vast majority of health and social care services provided across Ireland. They will provide the governance and organisational arrangements to enable planning, management and delivery of care for people and for communities across their region.

The HSE Dublin and Midlands health region is divided into 4 healthcare areas:

• HSE Dublin South City and West
• HSE Dublin South West
• HSE Kildare West Wicklow
• HSE Midlands

And it will manage and deliver all public health and social care services in:

• Laois
• Longford
• Offaly
• Dublin South West
• Dublin West Dublin
• Dublin South City
• Kildare
• West Wicklow
• Westmeath

More than one million people live in this region.

Services in the Dublin and Midlands health region

HSE services that work together to provide healthcare to this region include:

• acute Hospitals
• primary care services
• older persons services
• disability services
• mental health services
• palliative care services
• social inclusion services
• public and private providers
• health and social care professionals
• voluntary sector services
• public health
• national ambulance services

Naas General Hospital

Naas General Hospital is an acute general hospital serving a catchment population of over a quarter of a million people in Kildare and West Wicklow. The majority of the hospital activity results from unscheduled inpatient admissions through the Emergency Department (ED) which operates 24/7.

We aim to provide a high-quality patient-centred service within a safe, cost-effective and flexible environment.