Health Minister unveils ambitious health reform targets for next three years

It has been developed to include the learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic, the new context within which the health system operates, and will involve investment of some €3.7bn. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Three new elective hospitals will be built in Cork, Dublin and Galway and 7,000 community-based healthcare staff will be hired over the next three years according to ambitious Sláintecare health reform targets unveiled this morning.

There are also plans to introduce the Sláintecare Consultant Contract, which will permit public-only work in public hospitals, and to open 31 primary health care centres around the country by 2023.