Loretto’s role is to provide leadership and strategic direction for nursing and midwifery in conjunction with her multi-professional leaders in digital health; ensure clinical practice is fully supported by the use of digital technology and data science; and the clinical workforce is empowered to practice and lead in a digitally-enabled healthcare system now and into the future.
She believes connected digital health can make all our lives better and delivering an enabling architecture to support Irelands over-arching vision for healthcare which is Slaintecare, with integrated care at its core, is a fundamental driver for her role.
Loretto has extensive experience working across health services and has worked in a variety of clinical and management roles in acute and community services in addition to research, programme management, data analytics, quality improvement and leadership roles.