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Introduction<br />

Service (NAS) and individual managers will be held to account for their performance in relation to Access to<br />

services, the Quality and Safety of those services, doing this within the Financial resources available and<br />

effectively harnessing the efforts of our Workforce.<br />

We acknowledge the work currently being undertaken by the All Party Committee on the Future of<br />

Healthcare which is expected to shape our service plans in the coming years.<br />

The NSP2017 will be:<br />

• Accompanied by the HSE Capital Plan and ICT Capital Plan<br />

• Underpinned by operational plans for each of our service divisions, Hospital Groups, CHOs and the<br />

NAS.<br />

Risks to the delivery of the National Service Plan 2017<br />

There are a number of risks to the successful delivery of NSP 2017. While every effort will be made to<br />

manage these risks, it may not be possible to eliminate them in full and they may impact on planned levels<br />

of service delivery or achievement of targeted performance. Particular management focus will be required<br />

to mitigate risk in the following areas:<br />

• Increased demand for services beyond the funded levels<br />

• Meeting the level of changing needs and emergency placements in disability services, supporting<br />

complex paediatric discharges within primary care and responding to increasing levels of demand for<br />

acute hospital unscheduled care services<br />

• Regulatory requirements in public long-stay residential care facilities, the disability sector, mental<br />

health and hospital services which must be responded to within the limits of the revenue and capital<br />

funding available<br />

• Control over pay and staff numbers at the same time as managing specific safety, regulatory, demand<br />

and practice driven pressures while seeking to ensure recruitment and retention of a highly skilled and<br />

qualified workforce, particularly in high-demand areas and specialties<br />

• Managing within the limitations of our clinical, business information, financial and HR systems to<br />

support an information driven health service<br />

• Managing the scale of change required to support new models of service delivery and structures while<br />

supporting innovation<br />

• Our capacity to invest in and maintain our infrastructure and address critical risks resulting from ageing<br />

medical equipment and physical infrastructure<br />

• Our ability to meet the demand for new drug approvals within funded levels<br />

• The scale of financial management required within Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) in<br />

line with the numbers availing of schemes, including medical cards.<br />

Tony O’Brien<br />

Director General<br />

Chairman of the Directorate<br />

25 th November 2016<br />

National Service Plan 2017 2

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