The Health Regions Implementation is the internal reorganisation of the HSE into six operational regions with responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services within their respective defined geographies.
These new arrangements are fundamental to the delivery of Sláintecare reforms and aim to improve the health service's ability to deliver timely integrated care to patients and service users, care that is planned and funded in line with their needs at regional and local level.
The changes in healthcare governance arrangements are being designed to make our services easier to navigate for people, and to facilitate more integrated care, stronger accountability, and greater transparency across the sector.
This in turn aims to foster change and innovation at a local level to deliver high-quality services to populations based on their needs, making our service a better place to work for our staff.
The move to a regionalised approach, represents a major shift in the approach to the planning, funding and delivery of health and social care services.
In line with international best practice, the new arrangements will support a population-based approach to the planning and resourcing of the geographic delivery of services to improve health outcomes for people in Ireland.
As part of these reforms, the operational focus is moving from the HSE Centre to the Health Regions and Integrated Healthcare Areas (IHAs), to allow the regional structures to have the intended level of appropriate authority and operational control of services in their region.
The HSE Centre will develop and oversee standards and guidelines for implementation at regional level.
As part of that, the HSE Technology & Transformation Office is responsible for the delivery of technology to support healthcare across Ireland.
Technology & Transformation is also responsible for turning the Digital for Care **** into a reality ensuring that technology supports healthcare efficiently and effectively throughout the whole system.