Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

The HSE accepts that patient advocacy is the prerogative of all staff and that the consultant in question acted and continues to act in the best interest of patients at all times.

Independent of the events of the past few days, Cork University Hospital has been developing and continues to progress structures that reflect the scale and complexity of the hospital. The intention of the executive management board is to implement governance structures which will have flexibility and innovation to respond to the continuing challenges of health care delivery. This is being done in the context of the hospital being selected as an exemplar site for the implementation of the clinicians in management programme being developed by the HSE in the context of the new consultant contract. This will involve a reorganisation and restructuring of the current clinical divisions and the participation of key staff in the leadership development programme.

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