2. Sharon Gallagher Director of Transformation, Department of Health
Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together Leading Whole System Change
Sharon Gallagher
Director of Transformation, Department of Health

3. Delivering Together: The Ambition

4. Four key pillars in Delivering Together
Build capacity in community & prevention
Enhance support in Primary Care
Reform community
& hospital services
Organise ourselves to deliver

5. Build capacity in community & prevention
Community Development Framework
Guidance on Social Procurement Clauses
Healthy Child, Healthy Future Programme
Making Life Better
Early Intervention Transformation Programme & Family Support Hubs
Improving and Safeguarding Social Wellbeing Strategy

6. Enhance support in Primary Care
Named District Nurses & Health Visitors
Increase in GP training places
Investment in GP Federations
Multi-Disciplinary working in Primary Care
New roles - Practice Based Pharmacists, Physician Associates/Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Enhance support in Primary Care

7. Reform community & hospital services
Waiting Lists
Elective Care Centres
Service Reconfiguration and Reviews
Reform of Adult Social Care and Support
Reform community & hospital services

8. Organise ourselves to deliver
Closure of Health and Social Care Board
One system working
Organise ourselves to deliver

9. Enablers for change

11. A conversation with the Transformation Implementation Group
Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together Leading Whole System Change
A conversation with the Transformation Implementation Group

13. A conversation with the Transformation Implementation Group
Over lunch members of TIG will be:
- By fireplace in Milford Foyer - In the Riverview Suite - By fireplace in Ballygowan Foyer - At entrance to Glen corridor