Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I might just add an important point. Each hospital has a chief executive and an executive management team with a clinical director, director of nursing and other associated disciplines. We are trying to promote clinical leadership. There are programmes to encourage clinicians to come forward into those roles because that is how we bring about change. We need to have good executive leadership, as the Chairman said, alongside good clinical leadership, be it nursing, added health professionals, consultants or medical staff.

We are actively trying to encourage more clinicians to come forward into those clinical leadership roles.