The health system measures put into place in Ireland to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:
The Irish health system was already experiencing significant challenges at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, but a number of measures are being put in place to support the delivery of health services at this critical time. These include agreement with GPs to ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing services, the utilisation of private hospital capacity, and an expansion in both acute and community capacity.
The Government has allocated extra funding to the Health Service Executive for improving capacity in the health service, including using private hospital capacity, increasing staffing and overtime, developing home testing and remote management solutions for mildly ill patients and pushing community awareness and preventive actions. The package will also be used to promote greater use of technology and telephone support. Further health-related measures of a similar financial scale are under active consideration.
The published information can be found here
