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The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Hard Shoulder Highlights with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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The most ambitious HSE Winter Plan ever - is it achievable?

The HSE has launched its most ambitions Winter Plan for 2020-2021, costing €600m between now and April next year. It aims to more than double the number of acute beds, shift as much care as possible into the community, create almost 5 million more home support hours among, and increase the staffing allocation across the service. But is it achievable? Kieran Cuddihy spoke to Anne O'Connor, Chief Operations Officer with the HSE to explain their plan