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In 2005 Brendan Drumm was appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service Executive (HSE), a company being established by the Irish Government to manage the delivery of all health and personal social services in Ireland. Prior to 2005 services were provided by a large number of agencies. Establishing the HSE involved amalgamating over 50 organisations employing 110,000 people. The HSE had an annual budget of approximately €13 billon. He was appointed accounting officer for this budget responsible for ensuring expenditure did not breach the limits set annually. During his period of office (2005-2010), as confirmed by the annual reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the HSE operated within its allocated budget each year even with the marked reductions in funding associated with recession between 2008 and 2010.
As CEO, he initiated the largest public service transformation programme ever undertaken in Ireland. He persuaded the Irish Government to support the development of a new integrated healthcare delivery system placing hospital and community services under single management system focused on delivering the majority of care to patients as close as possible to their home. The building blocks of the programme included:
• Appointing clinician leaders focused on improving access, quality and value at national, regional and local level including establishing national clinical programs across all subspecialty areas.
• Integrating hospital and community services under single management system in 2008.
• A national hospital reconfiguration programme reducing the number of acute hospitals, centralising specialist services including cancer, cardiology and Intensive care into fewer centres.
• Establishing a new National Childrens Hospital / paediatric centre of excellence
•Establishing a national network of Primary Care Teams.
• Developing a comprehensive performance management system (HealthStat)
• Development programme for the ambulance service including training large numbers of advanced emergency medical technicians and a rapid trauma response system.
• Value for money initiatives generating cost reductions of over €1 billion enabling significant service level increases.
Between 2005 and 2009 Ireland progressed from being ranked second from last by The European Health Consumer Index to13th of the 33 countries included in the index. However, In 2011 a newly formed Irish government discontinued the integrated services transformation programme by re-establishing separately managed hospital groups and community service areas. They also discontinued the dynamic performance measurement and management program (HealthStat). Over the subsequent eight years waiting lists for clinical services increased dramatically and Ireland’s ranking in the European health consumer index decreased progressively. There were large budgetary overruns each year. In 2018, the Government reverted to the focus of the original transformation programme based on integrating services across the hospital and community (Slainte Care)
Brendan Drumm undertook his medical studies at The National University of Ireland, Galway graduating in 1979. In 1981 he commenced training in Paediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto where he was subsequently appointed Staff Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. In 1990 he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatrics at University College Dublin and Paediatric Gastroenterologist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin where he established a research unit.
His research was supported over a 20 year period by grants from the Wellcome Trust in the UK, the European Union, American Gastroenterology Association and Irish Health Research Board.. The ranking of his research is confirmed by publications on several occasions in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Gastroenterology, The Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been an invited speaker for National Colleges of Physicians and National Gastroenterology associations across the world including the United States, England, Canada, Scotland, Holland and Australia, and has been a guest speaker at Universities in over 20 countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the American Gastroenterology Association.
Having completed his term of office at the HSE he returned to his academic position at University College Dublin where his work focuses on two related areas, promoting caring as the most important component of clinical practice and the need for clinicians to be the leaders of transformational change in healthcare delivery. He works as an advisor /reviewer on healthcare program developments in a number of countries including establishing innovative approaches to delivering health care in developing countries.
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John Henderson, Z. Britton, Craig R. Hall, Murray J. B. Brown, K. Man, N. Abraham-Thomas,B. Drumm,Lucio D'Anna,J. Kwan,Z. Brown, Abdul Malik,M. Venter,O. Halse,S. Jamil, L. Dixon, A. Ali Sheikh,S. Elmamoun,Dheeraj Kalladka, Subhash Banerjee
European Stroke Journal (2021): 290-291
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