The HSE is making a number of changes to its leadership team, according to a confidential memo issued by the Director General, Tony O' Brien to senior staff.
It says that a Chief Operations Officer and a Chief Strategy and Planning Officer will be appointed, following open competition to be held through the Public Appointments Service.
Some existing National Director roles are also to change.
The current role of existing national directors for Primary Care, Mental Health, Social Care and Health and Wellbeing will be subsumed into a new post of National Director of Community Health Service.
Also the existing posts of National Director Clinical Strategy and Programmes and National Director Quality Improvement will be subsumed into a new role of National Medical Director, to be filled by open competition.
Explaining the changes, Mr O' Brien said it was now three years since the establishment of the HSE Directorate and progress on some key objectives had been slower than he would have liked, although much had been achieved.
He said that with the Hospital Groups and Community Healthcare Organisations now established and beginning to bed down, this was an opportune time to review the national corporate structures.
The four page memo says: "The operational and performance management of the system is based on improved differentiation and diagnosis of what can realistically be expected from a given quantum of resource inputs taking account of current models of service delivery, wider constraints and the need to make change in a properly structured way over reasonable time periods".
