Welcome to Health Manager Journal June 2025

Compassionate Leadership and Innovation: Shaping the Future of Health and Social Care

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Welcome from Breda Crehan-Roche, President of the Health Management Institute of Ireland. Dear Readers, It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the June edition...

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Compassionate and Collaborative Leadership

Leadership

Leadership for psychological well-being and resilience in healthcare

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Psychological well-being and resilience is an integral part of both our personal and professional life, writes Dr Claudine Kearney, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director,...

Resilience Training

Opinion

Obituary

Kieran J. Hickey – A Renaissance Man – Death of former HMI President

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A Renaissance man, with a wide range of interests stretching from music to drama, public speaking, athletics,  academe, sports and travel, Kieran J. Hickey...

Quality & Patient Safety

Introducing the QPS Competency Navigator

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Veronica Hanlon, Educationalist, National Quality & Patient Safety, Health Service Executive discusses the QPS Competency Framework. In January of this year, HSE National Quality and...

Awards

Appointments

News from around the health services

Bill Maher is to depart as Group Chief Executive of the Bon Secours Health System

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Bernard Gloster, Chief Executive Officer, HSE will step down in March 2026

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International Women’s Day at the HSE Offices at Dr. Steevens Hospital, Dublin

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Celebrating women CEOs of Irish voluntary hospitals and hospices

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New developments funded in a wide variety of areas in 2025

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Significant investment for mental health in 2025

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National Heart Programme should take over governance and implementation of specialist cardiac services

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Integrated Hip and Knee Pathway Helps Patients Stay Active and Reduces Need for Surgery

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Michael J. Dowling will transition to CEO Emeritus of Northwell Health

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Mater Private Network opens €12 million new Cork Heart Centre

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Roles of Ministers of State at the Department of Health

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Cervical Cancer Elimination

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Minister opens Supra Regional Endometriosis Centre in Cork

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Steady increase in the healthcare workforce in Ireland

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Patients can now access more specialist, high-quality care closer to home

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HSE Says Enhanced Community Care Improving health outcomes for patients across Ireland

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A wider roll out required of health checks to rural communities

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Hereditary Haemochromatosis (HH) Education Programme

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CICER to develop a tool to estimate the cost of infectious disease outbreaks in public acute hospitals

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PPS numbers being added to patients’ electronic records and paper registration forms

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New development at TUH

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Majority of people living with end stage kidney disease report their treatment is ‘the best it can be.’

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A record €1.33 billion in health capital funding for 2025

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Acute Developments in 2025

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MSc in Health Policy & Management 2025-2026

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Official Opening of the Joe & Helen O’Toole Community Stroke Hub at the Croí Heart & Stroke Centre, Galway

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Dr Maria O’Kane appointed as new Medical Council  Chief Executive Officer

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Two health regions to deliver Brighter Beginnings

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Monthly waiting list figures – April 2025

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Virtual Ward saved 3,820 bed days

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National standard of access to acute mental health care across all EDs in the country needed – Inspector

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New catheterisation laboratories at University Hospital Limerick

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Significant reduction in suicide rate in Ireland

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Applications for approval of Consultant posts down by over one third in 2024

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Hospital launches AI research study to improve GP discharge letters

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Comprehensive adult immunisation programmes could save up to €23 for every €1 spent in Ireland – Position Paper

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€103,000 to fund new initiatives

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Minister opens Primary Care Centre

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Minister announces €1.89 million funding for community-based drugs services

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Irish Hospice Foundation Unveils New Supports to Help People Die Well at Home

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Home IV antibiotics service saves 3,261 bed days each year

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Tallaght University Hospital first to pioneer Advanced Lab Testing Technology

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Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital launches Ireland’s first full-cycle sustainable waste solution 

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HIQA launches consultation on screening men for abdominal aortic aneurysm

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Building work begins on new Limerick Surgical Hub

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New 90-bed Community Hospital for Carrick-on-Shannon

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New state-of-the-art cancer centre for Co. Limerick

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Clinical news

Maureen Browne

Editor, Health Manager Journal

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