Meeting notification - Regional Health Forum South West

The next meeting of the Regional Health Forum South West will take place on Thursday November 6th at 11am, at Council Chambers, Cork County Hall, Victoria Cross, Cork.

The meeting agenda is attached.

Representatives of the media are welcome to attend in person or online.

Please note that the Regional Health Forum South West Office will facilitate online attendance for accredited members of the media.

Please register with press.southwest@hse.ie to attend in person or on-line.

A reminder that if attending online, you must keep your microphone muted, and external recording of the meeting is not permitted.

About the Regional Health Forum:

The Health Act 2004 provided a legal framework for the establishment of the Health Service Executive (HSE) on a statutory basis. Part 8 of the Act – “Public Representation and User Participation” – sets out at Section 42, the establishment of four Regional Health Forums (RHF).

These four Regional Health Forums have been reformed in recent months so that there are six forums, each covering the same geographical area as a HSE Health Region.

The function of the RHF is “to make such representations to the Executive [of the HSE] as the forum considers appropriate on the range and provision of health and personal social services provided in its functional area...” The RHFs comprise of representatives from the City and County Councils within the functional area of each Forum.

The Regional Health Forum South now comprises representatives from Cork City Council, Cork County Council and Kerry County Council, and mirrors the area covered by HSE South West (ie Cork and Kerry).