How is the HSE transforming itself?

The health service is constantly evolving and will never be “fixed”, but the Government’s mooted 10-year consensus plan is real progress that can help improve it, according to RCPI CEO Leo Kearns. Niamh Mullen reports The commitment to developing a 10-year plan for health in the new programme for government represents a recognition at political level that “short-term crisis management” is a “recipe for failure”. Speaking at the RCPI’s Faculty of Paediatrics Spring Conference, College CEO Leo Kearns, who served as the HSE’s National Lead for Transformation and Change from 2013-2015, said consistent and sustained improvement was impossible if the…