Dr. Sara Burke:

There were a few key programme managers working with Laura McGahey, often on secondment, so they maybe went back to the hospital or part of the HSE they came from. They are largely dispersed back into the system, but not on Sláintecare. There is no Sláintecare programme office, per se. The Department’s response to that is “We’re all doing Sláintecare.” To give them credit, when you deal with them on specific issues, Sláintecare is front and centre of their work but it is missing that drive towards reform.