HSE to appoint four new national directors

Sweeping changes in the HSE leadership structure include the appointment of four new national directors, it has emerged.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien wants to focus on devolving decision-making and accountability as close as possible to the front-line.

The four new national directors are a chief operations officer, a chief strategy and planning officer, a national director of community health service operations, and a national medical director. In a confidential memorandum seen by the Irish Examiner, Mr O’Brien wrote that the “adjustments” he proposed to the health services’ leadership team had been approved unanimously by the HSE directorate.