Review of acute hospital services in the Mid - Health Service Executive

Review of acute hospital services in HSE Mid-West
An action plan for acute and community services
Figure 5: Implementation structure for the Mid-West Transformation Programme
Clinical
Director
Managed Clinical Networks
- Emergency Care
- Planned Care
- Critical Care
- Cancer, etc….
- NHO
- PCCC
- Ambulance
Transition
Manager
HSE Steering Group
Mid-West
Programme Director
The project management arrangements need to include:
• A small HSE steering group to oversee the programme and take executive action as
necessary to keep the programme on track;
• A Mid West project board comprising representatives from NHO, PCCC, Population
Health, University of Limerick and a nomination from the consultant body, supported by:
- HR, Finance (inc. Procurement), and Estates directorates;
- Consultative panels of clinicians and other local stakeholders;
• A full-time programme director with overall responsibility for leadership and managing the
programme team;
• Project manager/s or seconded personnel within PCCC and NHO to manage and
coordinate the phasing of the actions;
• Clinical directors responsible for leading the development of the managed clinical
networks: emergency care; planned care; critical care; cancer; pathology; radiology; etc.;
• Service change leads to support the service programme changes within the networks,
including the clinical support services of pathology and radiology;
• Workforce director to lead the workforce planning, education and development;
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Transformation
Manager
- Human Resources
- Estates
- Finance
- Communications
- Information &
Communications Technology
Communications
Manager
- Professional
- Public/Lay
- Political
- Media