Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
It would be nice to say that, strategically, I would focus on all of the major changes that I need to make. I need to do that, and I need to devote a lot of my time to doing it. Given where matters stand, the health service needs a more hands-on, closer-to-the-point-of-local management, decision-making CEO than perhaps current circumstances might suggest I am. That is why I will be changing the management team process in its entirety on 4 April next. I will talk directly to the nine chief officers in the community healthcare sector, the chief executives of the six hospital groups and the chief executive of the Children's Health Ireland. It is in the context of that process that the hands-on piece will come about. Some people may not like that, but that is where it will come about.
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