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The Clinical Strategy and Programmes Division brings clinical leadership to the heart of decision-making process with the ultimate aim of improving quality, access and value of healthcare in the country.

With some 33 National Clinical Programmes (NCPs) and supporting initiatives they have been one of the most significant, positive developments in the Irish Health Service. They have changed, and continue to change, how care is delivered using evidence-based approaches to system reform.

The NCPs have provided a foundation of valuable learning of the need to maintain and enhance clinical leadership and develop clinical pathways that are truly patient-centred. To this end, the NCPs are being restructured into integrated care programmes.