Health Service Executive
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The Health Service Executive (HSE), or Feidhmeannacht na Serbhíse Sláinte (FSS) in Irish, is responsible for the provision of healthcare providing health and personal social services for everyone living in Ireland, with public funds. The Executive was established by the Health Act, 2004 and came into official operation on January 1, 2005. It replaces the ten regional Health Boards, the Eastern Regional Health Authority and a number of other different agencies and organisations. The Minister for Health and Children has overall responsibility for the Executive in Government. Ongoing disputes with pharmacists had lead to reduced public confidence in the HSE. The HSE proposed to cut contractual payments to all pharmacies by between 8% and 22.5%. This has sparked anger in the community pharmacy sector due to widespread closures of pharmacies predicted by the Irish Pharmacy Union. If this issue is not resolved widespread distruption to community pharmcy services may occur.
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[edit] HSE Regions
The HSE delivers its services through fifty-one Public Hospitals and thirty- two Local Health Offices nationwide. The HSE is divided into four administrative areas:
- HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster - (South Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Longford, Westmeath, Laois and Offaly)
- HSE Dublin North East - (North Dublin, Meath, Louth, Cavan and Monaghan)
- HSE South - (Cork, Kerry,South Tipperary, Wexford, Waterford, Carlow and Kilkenny)
- HSE West - (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Limerick, Clare, North Tipperary, Donegal, Sligo, and Leitrim)
[edit] Board of directors
- Liam Downey, Chairman - retired chief executive of Becton Dickinson in Ireland
- Donal de Buitleir - general manager, AIB Bank
- P Anne Scott - Professor and Head of School of Nursing, Dublin City University
- Michael McLoone - County Manager Donegal County Council
- Niamh Brennan - Professor of Management University College Dublin
- Michael Murphy - Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health University College Cork
- P J Fitzpatrick - Chief Executive, Courts Service
- John Murray - Professor of Business Studies Trinity College, Dublin
- Maureen Gaffney - Chairperson, National Economic and Social Forum
- Eugene McCague - Solicitor
- Joe Macri - Chief Executive, Microsoft Ireland
The Chief executive officer is Professor Brendan Drumm.
