HSE chief executive to tell members of Oireachtas Committee on Health that service now employing largest workforce to date
HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster will be questioned by the Oireachtas health committee about the organisation’s national service plan for 2024. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collinswill tell committee members that the health service now has its highest workforce to date, with an increase of 21.8 per cent since the end of 2019.
Last November, the HSE recruitment ban was extended to almost all staff, except consultants, doctors in training and 2023 graduate nurses and midwives. Previously, the freeze was enforced only for managerial and administrative roles. The highest ever net growth in the HSE workforce happened in 2023 with the addition of 8,239 staff and its section 39 agencies.
The HSE has been given an overall financial package of €23.5 billion. Of this, €2.8 billion has been provided by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in respect of specialist disability services.It is expected that Mr Gloster will be questioned by TDs about his plans to cut waiting lists and address waiting times. The HSE plans to address access and capacity problems with an additional €56 million for acute beds, diagnostics and the waiting list action plan.
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