HSE Walk and Talk Improvement podcast episode 30

Martina Queally, Regional Executive Officer - HSE Dublin and South East

Martina is the Regional Executive Officer for HSE Dublin and South East which serves the people of:

• Carlow
• Kilkenny
• South Tipperary
• Waterford
• Wexford
• East Wicklow
• parts of South Dublin

Martina has over 30 years experience in health services. She has particular expertise in strategic change management in public services and integrated service delivery. Since 2015, as Chief Officer in HSE Community Healthcare East, she led nearly 4,000 staff on the:

• planning and delivery of all community health services in the area (South Dublin and Wicklow)
• a range of national programmes

She has led a range of change, crisis and service transformation programmes, including the Area Crisis Management Team through the COVID-19 pandemic response and vaccination programme. In 2011 as Integrated Services Area Manager for Dublin South East Wicklow she amalgamated three community health services and an acute hospital network, and in 2005 she led the establishment of the Local Health Office structure in Kildare and West Wicklow.

Martina trained as a Nurse before qualifying as a Midwife and Public Health Nurse. She graduated with a M.Sc. in Heath Services Management from Trinity College Dublin in 2002. Her graduate work focused on the development of strategic, integrated approaches to health promotion within the Irish Health System. Martina has completed further study in areas of quality and service improvement and is a qualified executive coach and mentor.