HealtH Matters 13
uPDatEs
HSE SErvIcE
FUNDRAISING
GOlF EVENT
PlAN 2010
a staff golf outing will take place
at the Heritage Golf and spa
Resort, Killenard, Co laois on
The HSE Service Plan 2010 is now available on www.hse.ie and the
Friday, April 30th 2010. A draw
HSE Intranet.
on the day will be made for the
ENT Zambia Fund, established
by surgeon Kieran O’Driscoll
t
he Plan outlines the organisation’s more active chronic illness management at
targets for hospital, community and primary care level, supported by fast track
who is involved with a clinic
primary care services and details how it and direct access to a consultant opinion in Zambia where he performs
plans to maintain access to appropriate when it is needed, these eD visits, which operations twice a year.
treatments and services for patients often lead to admission, can be avoided.
and clients during 2010 despite current “I am particularly pleased that during the
TIMESHEET All DAY
resource pressures. year we will be completing the development
• Cost c70 (coffee on arrival,
It is the framework which outlines how of 1,200 very high quality residential beds
this year the Hse will deliver acute hospital, for older people and new Primary Care
golf and dinner.)
community and related social services Centres for 47 Primary Care Teams. These
• Competition 18-hole singles
within its budget of c14,070 billion. Other developments will greatly support our shift
stableford (three ball).
than some changes to the delivery of to the community. We plan to have almost • Token prizes – the experience
hospital based care, the same level of 400 Primary Care Teams in place by year of the beautiful seve
service as 2009 will be maintained in 2010 end”, he concluded.
Ballesteros designed golf
within the context of health service reform,
course is a prize itself!
a rapidly changing economic environment
and a climate of reducing resources.
speaking about the service Plan in early
TO BOOK A TIME
“From a service point of
February, Professor Brendan Drumm, CeO
For details on how to book
of the Hse, said “Our challenge this year view we will continue to
a time go to the Hse staff
is to keep on enhancing the quality of the Intranet http://hsenet.hse.ie
services we provide which can only be
reorient services away
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achieved by improving our effectiveness
from bringing people into
select Diary Dates and then
and in so doing, reducing costs.
april 2010’.
“From a service point of view we will hospital for care they
continue to reorient services away from
bringing people into hospital for care
should get on a day case
they should get on a day case basis and
basis and in community
in community facilities. a high hospital
admission rate is not a logical measure facilities.”
of the effectiveness of a modern health
service. Given the worry and inconvenience
hospitalisation can create for patients
and their families, we need to continue
to lower admission rates and we should
only admit patients when there is no better
clinical alternative. this is the standard of
care we would all want for ourselves," said
Professor Drumm.
“a significant number of people who
visit eDs do so for treatment associated
with their chronic illness which requires
interventions such as intravenous antibiotics
or simply monitoring and observation. With
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