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New Regional Health Authorities will manage HSE’s budget at local level

Authorities will not have their own boards

Regional Health Authorities were proposed as part of Sláintecare. Picture: Rollingnews.ie

New Regional Health Authorities will not have their own boards but will manage the majority of the HSE’s budget at a local level, according to the Department of Health.

In a briefing last week on the new Regional Health Authorities (RHAs), senior officials from the department, the HSE and the Regional Health Areas Advisory Group confirmed that a full implementation plan for the six new RHAs would be completed this year, and that they would ...