Corporate Plan 2025-2027

The HSE 3-year Corporate Plan showcases the organisation's goals for the health service between now and 2027.

The plan's main focuses are:

• social factors in healthcare
• providing safe care tailored to individual needs
• digitalising health services
• prioritising care closer to home

Summary of the HSE Corporate Plan 2025-2027

The Corporate Plan reveals significant differences in health quality between different groups of people. It examines how healthcare and social factors impact health outcomes.

Our Corporate Plan prioritises helping people to stay well for longer, with emphasis on those most in need and the underserved. It aims to provide safe, effective, and evidence-based care tailored to patient needs.

The digitalisation of health services is a key part of the HSE Corporate Plan. Digital health is key to transforming how we provide health and social care services. It improves health outcomes and the overall care experience for our patients.

The Plan focuses on improving efficiency and productivity while prioritising high-quality care closer to home. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity presented by the 6 new health regions and 20 integrated health areas.

Priorities

The Corporate Plan priorities are:

• Healthy communities
• Receiving the right care
• Receiving care in the right place
• Receiving care at the right time
• Strong foundations

Healthy communities - creating supportive environments for people to live healthier and longer

We aim to improve health and wellbeing through:

• national screening programmes
• immunisation programmes
• implementing the women’s health action plan
• oral health promotion
• longer term health service planning

To improve overall health, we will provide support for:

• healthy childhoods
• healthy ageing
• health equity
• prevention through public education and suicide reduction

Right care - ensuring people experience high quality, safe and coordinated care

We will ensure people receive safe and coordinated care by:

• implementing effective and efficient clinical pathways and models of care
• extending operating hours
• reducing unnecessary diagnostics
• improving appropriate medication management
• ensuring consistent patient experience, outcomes and safety
• implementing the HSE Strategy for Laboratory Services
• partnering with patients, service users and the voluntary sector

Right place - ensuring people receive care in the most appropriate setting

We will ensure people receive care in the setting most appropriate to their needs through:

• delivering care closer to home
• delivering more care in the community
• enhancing children's palliative care
• extending alternate care pathways by the National Ambulance Service
• increasing the number of beds and local injury units with the opening of the new Children's Hospital and 6 surgical hubs

We will continue development of:

• National Rehabilitation Hospital
• National Maternity Hospital
• trauma centres
• elective care centres
• specialist mental health bed provision
• future disability service capacity requirements

Right time - ensuring people can access services when they need them

We will ensure people can access services when they need them through:

• reducing waiting times with a focus on those at highest risk
• easing emergency department congestion
• improving access to health services for underserved groups

Strong foundations - investing in our staff, right capabilities and digital enablers

Our workforce, governance and information technology provide the foundation for service delivery.

This commitment includes several measures to strengthen these key health service assets.

This involves:

• multidisciplinary staff development and leadership training
• promoting a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
• digital implementation