The key details in the HSE's €600m winter plan

HSE chief clinical officer Dr Colm Henry addressing the media on the HSE's ambitious winter plan. Picture: Leon Farrell

The HSE is investing €600m in community services and supports to keep more people out of hospital, increasing bed capacity, recruiting 12,500 staff, and also looking to private hospitals to stave off "unprecedented" challenges this winter.

The winter plan hopes to head off additional challenges posed by Covid-19, reduced service capacity, the need for Covid and non-Covid services, and growing waiting lists.