Executive Summary
Section A - The Case for Reform
1. Introduction to future health
2. Delivering the reform programme: governance, management and collaboration
3. Patient Safety and Quality
Section B - The Four Pillars of Reform
4. Health and Wellbeing
5. Service Reform - a new integrated model of care
6. Structural Reform
7. Financial Reform
Section C - Reforming the Delivery System
8. Reforming Primary Care
9. Reforming our Hospitals
10. Reforming Social and Continuing Care
11. Tackling the capacity deficit
Appendix 1 - Actions and Timelines
Appendix 2 - Acronyms
The Minister for Health Dr. James Reilly TD and Ministers of State Kathleen Lynch TD & Alex White TD have launched Future Health: A Strategic Framework for Reform of the Health Service 2012-2015 on 15 November 2012. It sets out the main healthcare reforms that will be introduced in the coming years, as key building blocks for the introduction of Universal Health Insurance in 2016. Future Health is about prioritising the needs of the patient even as difficult decisions on health financing are made.
| Format | Download |
|---|---|
| Keywords | strategic planning, health policy, health service reform, health services |
| Publisher | Department of Health |
| Classification | health policy |
| Pages | 52 |
| Categories: | Reports, Irish Content |
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