The purpose of the content on about.hse.ie/news is to share news and announcements with the following groups of people:
This content highlights the current position of the HSE on any given topic.
These are the ‘rules’ that explain what content goes where. This content definition tells us what is published on about.hse.ie/news, and what isn’t.
| What we publish |
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| Important updates about the HSE |
| Important updates about hospitals, including regional and national updates on service disruption |
| Important updates about public health, including vaccination updates |
| Important updates about care centres and other facilities |
| News related only to one specific region - to be classified on a story-by-story basis |
| Announcements of regional consultant appointments |
| Key conclusions or findings of new publications and other health intelligence information |
| Key learnings from events |
| Political visits to primary care centres and hospitals - for example, if a minister visits |
| Press releases |
| What we don’t publish |
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| ‘A day in the life’ content. This type of content does not fit the purpose criteria, but they can be sent to media for publication or can be published on Our Health Service with due notice. Contact internal comms for information about publishing on Our Health Service. |
| Opinion-based, thought leadership articles. |
Thought leadership articles are better published in the media or on LinkedIn.
Contact the social media team for advice. | | Updates about non-political visits or nice events in care centres or hospitals, for example, celebrities - these work well on social media. Reach out to the social team when you want to publish this content. | | Media responses | | Parliamentary question responses | | Board meeting minutes | | Freedom of Information details |