Reilly: HSE change will improve service

THE Government has moved to take back direct control of the health service by overhauling the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) ahead of the promised dismantling of the executive.

The current HSE board members told Health Minister James Reilly yesterday that they were willing to go, a move which he said would shorten the chain of command in health services.

Dr Reilly’s appointment of an interim new board will be seen as a bid to rid the HSE of management with links to the former government and former Health Minister Mary Harney.