{"id":206520,"date":"2025-12-23T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:27:05","slug":"hse-pledges-to-set-up-surgical-hubs-in-cork-limerick-waterford-dublin-and-galway-by-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206520\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE pledges to set up surgical hubs in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Dublin, and Galway by end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The HSE service plan for next year pledges five surgical hubs in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, and North Dublin will open by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

It also commits to making planning permission applications next year for elective hospitals in Glanmire, Co Cork, and Galway.<\/p>\n

The plan sets out how a budget of \u20ac29bn will be spent nationally, with regional breakdowns yet to come from each area. It includes a 20% increase on disability spending.<\/p>\n

It also commits to the new National Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a> being completed, though it does not provide a date within the year.<\/p>\n

Surgical hubs were announced first in December 2022, and were expected to open within 18 months, but so far only one is taking patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurgical hubs will deliver 10,500 new and additional day case procedures, and 4,600 new and additional OPD appointments in 2026,\u201d the HSE said.<\/p>\n

In addition to opening five hubs, it plans to complete the initial design stage for hubs in Sligo and Letterkenny.<\/p>\n

The elective hospitals are expected to take non-trauma care out of CUH and Galway hospitals. The Department of Health previously said it expects these to be at \u201cshovel-ready\u201d stage by 2030.\u00a0 The HSE intends to “prepare and submit” the planning permission applications next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also plans to set up a new national ambulance service tertiary education centre in Cork.<\/p>\n

‘Severe backlogs’<\/p>\n

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill welcomed the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some areas, patients are seen quickly; in others, access is slower. Meanwhile, services such as community therapies face severe backlogs \u2014 even in health regions that perform well in other areas,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Our goal is that, wherever you live in Ireland, you should have timely access to high-quality care,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Minister for children, disability, and equality Norma Foley welcomed plans to expand disability care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said funding will help \u201cstrengthen sustainability, expand capacity, and embed a rights-based, person-centred approach\u201d.<\/p>\n

The HSE’s plan also commits to a long-discussed project to offer children a single point of access to disability, mental health, and primary care services.<\/p>\n

Nursing homes<\/p>\n

On nursing homes<\/a>, the plan says a new build in Midleton \u2014 a public-private partnership between the HSE and Sisk\/Equitix \u2014 is due to open by March 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It does not refer to six other homes in this deal, including that in Killarney.<\/p>\n

The minister of state for older people and housing, Kieran O\u2019Donnell, said funding will see more \u201colder people receive the right care in the right place at the right time\u201d.<\/p>\n

The plans supports an increase in home support hours to 26.7m nationally.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlongside this target, action will also be taken to reduce the home support waiting list,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Some 313 day centres will be funded to support 15,800 older people, with funding also made available for more than 3.3m meals on wheels deliveries.<\/p>\n

Mental health services will be funded for 300 extra posts, minister of state for mental health Mary Butler said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew specialist nursing teams will be deployed out-of-hours in model four hospital emergency departments to support people presenting in a crisis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Three new mental health cafes offering out-of-hours support will open, including one in Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The HSE service plan for next year pledges five surgical hubs in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, and North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2120,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-206520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}