Dr Terry Hennessy appointed as Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development for HSE Mid-West

HSE Mid-West has announced the appointment of Dr Terry Hennessy as the Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development of health services in the region.

A consultant cardiologist who has worked in the Mid-West since 1998, and most recently the Clinical Director of Ennis, Nenagh, and St John’s Hospitals, Dr Hennessy now assumes responsibility for the strategic delivery of all acute and community clinical care services across the Mid-West.

Dr Hennessy’s first project as Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development is leading a vital internal consultation process to gather insights on the design and delivery of local urgent and emergency care services in the region.

This essential process will inform the submission that Sandra Broderick, Regional Executive Officer, HSE Mid-West, will make to HIQA’s ongoing review of urgent and emergency care in the Mid-West.

Congratulating Dr Hennessy on his appointment, Ms Broderick said:

“I have asked Dr Hennessy to lead the internal consultation process with a view to capturing as many voices, views and opinions as possible to inform the submission I will make to HIQA on behalf of HSE Mid-West. This process will enable me to submit a fully informed position from healthcare staff across this region.”

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Dr Hennessy spent 13 years working in both Ennis Hospital and University Hospital Limerick as a general medical physician and cardiologist. In 2011 he became part of the Mid-West regional cardiology team who collectively went on to establish a 24/7 STEMI service. Most recently he was Clinical Director for Model 2 Hospitals.  He will continue to see his patients in the Cath Lab alongside the commitments of his new regional role.

Taking up his new role, Dr Hennessy said: “Having worked in the Mid-West for nearly three decades, I am delighted with this opportunity to assist in planning a holistic strategy for the future provision of health services in the Mid-West region.

“My immediate priority is to lead out on consultation with all disciplines involved in healthcare across our region to inform the shared view regarding the future design of urgent and emergency care services. The consultation will be run as an open and inclusive process and aim to gather as many views as possible,” he said.

Dr Hennessy graduated from UCD in 1989, and trained in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine at Mater Misericordiae, University Hospital Dublin and Papworth and Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge.

He holds an MD in Medicine from UCD for studies on Stress Echocardiography, and is a Fellow of RCPI and the European Society of Cardiology.