Clinical teams

The HSE's clinical teams provide essential healthcare services, support and research to ensure patients in Ireland get the best treatment available.

Clinical Design and Innovation

The National Clinical Director for Integrated Care leads the National Clinical Programmes, managed through Clinical Design and Innovation.

The aim of Clinical Design and Innovation is to improve quality, access and value of healthcare in the country.

National Clinical Programmes bring together healthcare experts to define how we deliver healthcare in Ireland.

National Cancer Control Programme

The NCCP works with health service providers and other partners to prevent cancer, treat cancer, and increase survival and quality of life for those who develop cancer, by converting the knowledge gained through research, surveillance and outcome evaluation into strategies and actions.

Population and Public Health

The population and public health team work to protect the health of people in Ireland. They focus on:

• preventing disease and injury
• responding to public health threats
• promoting good physical, mental and social health
• improving health services

National Screening Services

The national screening service team runs 4 national population-based screening programmes.

3 of them screen for cancer and 1 screens for diabetic retinopathy (a serious eye disease).

Our screening programmes look for early signs of disease in healthy people so that we can help prevent disease or detect health issues early.

Organ Donation Transplant Ireland

Organ donation transplant Ireland (ODTI) is responsible for overseeing organ donation and transplant services in Ireland and ensures the quality and safety of organs for transplantation.

The National Organ Procurement Service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They coordinate organ donation between donating hospitals and transplant recipient centres.

There are specialist organ donation staff working in hospital groups across the country.

HSE Library

As part of the academics and research team, HSE Library is a national service delivered through a network of libraries.

Benefits of joining include:

• access to hselibrary.ie including eJournals, eBooks, clinical decision-making tools
• save time by requesting a literature search
• improve research skills with training
• keep up-to-date with subject-based research bulletins.

National Doctors Training and Planning

National Doctors Training and Planning (NDTP) is responsible for ensuring that the Irish health service has the appropriate number of specialists with training that matches Ireland’s model of healthcare delivery.

There are four key functions in NDTP that help us reach this goal.

Medical education and training

Working with various training bodies, the medical education and training team oversees the delivery of postgraduate medical training. They also oversee the lead non-consultation hospital doctor (NCHD) programme. This programme works to improve NCHD leadership and engagement.

Medical workforce planning

The workforce planning team analyses the current and future medical workforce requirements. This helps make sure that the health service always has the right number of doctors, in the right specialities and the right time

Consultant post approval

The consultant post approval team manages the approval process for medical consultant posts and provides administration support to the Consultant Application Approval Committee (CAAC).

Doctors integrated management E-system (DIME)

DIME is the national system that captures, manages and reports medical workforce and training information. This helps us make evidence based decisions across the NDTP.

These functions work together to make sure that the Irish health service is consistently staffed with trained specialists. This work helps us ensure that doctors’ skills and knowledge is always in line with patient needs and changing demands in healthcare across all regions.

National Patient Safety Office

The national patient safety office aims to make sure that all patients using health and social care services receive the safest are possible.

They work in partnership with HSE, patient partners and other internal and external partners to improve patient safety and the quality of care.

National Genetics and Genomics Office

The National Genetics and Genomics office (NGGO) is responsible for the implementation of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland.

The strategy includes:

• development of a skilled genetic and genomic workforce
• enhancing clinical services for patients and families
• strengthening genomic laboratory infrastructure
• driving advances in genetic and genomic medicine.