CEO FOR GALWAY HOSPITALS ANNOUNCED

Date Published: 09-Dec-2011

The new CEO of Galway University Hospitals has been announced.

Bill Maher, currently acting chief executive of St Vincents Hospital in Dublin, will take over as chief executive of the Galway/Roscommon hospital group from January.

The Minister for Health has announced that new management arrangements are to be put in place for two groups of hospitals in the West and Mid West.

Under the new arrangements, each group will have one CEO, a single clinical governance model, one budget and one employment ceiling.

Galway University Hospitals-that’s UHG and Merlin Park, will be grouped with Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe and Roscommon General Hospital.

Mr Bill Maher has been appointed CEO of this group with effect from the 9th of January next year.

Elsewhere, the Mid Western Regional Hospitals at Limerick, Ennis and Nenagh, together with the Orthopaedic Hospital at Croom and St John’s Hospital Limerick will work together.

Former head of the National hospitals office Ann Doherty has been appointed CEO of this group and will transfer to this role from the National cancer control programme in January.

A supervisory group of five individuals with expertise in different aspects of hospital management will provide support, on a part-time basis, to the two CEOs.