Mr Gloster said by June this year, a three-year plan will be finalised for unscheduled care. "At the same time parallel to that, we can't keep doing this cycle every year equally, because we know all of the issues, we know all of the challenges, we know what the possible responses are, and we know what some of the responses we just can't achieve."
"So, in that context we're now focused on a plan for the rest of this year, right through the summer and into the winter, and I hope to have that concluded and discussed and agreed with the Minister and the Department before the end of May. He said despite making significant progress - "1,000 extra beds, 20,000 extra staff, and a lot of other stuff that will take time to build up to have that real full impact, we have to focus I think on urgent care critically now throughout the year". In a follow-up interview with RTÉ News he said that "any analysis of the activity in our hospitals now shows we're challenged right throughout the year". He told the annual conference of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation that a plan for the rest of the year was being developed.
He said the health service is now moving to deal with the issue on an all-year 'round basis. Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive Bernard Gloster has said that Winter Plans to deal with overcrowding have served their purpose.
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