National Health Summit – Ireland's longest running healthcare management conference.

​Our health service is being challenged. From the rise in chronic diseases to an ageing and growing population to pressure on healthcare funding, our government and all healthcare stakeholders must find a way to creating an effective and sustainable healthcare system. Sláintecare is that way – the blueprint for an affordable, universal, single-tier healthcare system where all patients are treated promptly and effectively on the basis of medical needs, not their ability to pay.

2019, the first full year of implementation, has seen Sláintecare starting to take shape. Some key milestones include the formation of the new HSE board, agreement to re-organise the HSE into six healthcare regions with devolved decision-making powers and the publication of the review into removing private practice from public hospitals. Now comes the hard part – implementing and paying for the reforms. With that in mind, the National Health Summit 2020, now in its sixteenth year, will ask how will we realise the reform plan's vision. This event is attended by the range of healthcare stakeholders including policy-makers, leaders and managers in healthcare management and delivery, clinical leaders, patient advocates, researchers, academics, economists, service providers to the healthcare sector.

Since the early noughties, this summit has been ‘the go to event' for senior leaders within the entire health eco-system. It is a forum that brings together the full range of stakeholders in our public health service to learn, network and share knowledge and experience. It is where healthcare staff and leaders, policy-makers, commentators and patient groups meet to constructively challenge current ways of thinking and offer new perspectives.