Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, has published the Sláintecare Progress Report 2022 and Action Plan 2023.
- 2022 highlights include: Sláintecare Consultant Contract; Public Hospital Inpatient Charges for Children Abolished; Elective Hospitals Approved in Principle; Waiting Lists Reduction of 11% for those exceeding Sláintecare Maximum Wait Times; Free Contraception Scheme; Increasing capacity (hospital and critical care beds); Additional frontline health and social care staff
- 2023 areas of focus include: Enhanced Community Care programme; Waiting List Action Plan; Workforce Planning; Regional Health Areas; Surgical Hubs; eHealth