In the absence of an integrated process for development and succession planning, many managers are put in situ with little, if any, development, writes Keith McCarthy.
HSE Chiefs revealed that a Band 1 hospital (a HSE Regional Hospitals or a Voluntary Teaching Hospital) would not be needed at the core of every new Integrated Services Area (ISA), when they replied to questions from a packed audience at the HMI Forum, writes Maureen Browne.
Proposals for licensing legislation are to be submitted to the Government by the end of 2010, and there is a need for collaborative working to ensure strong effective governance and safe effective care, the Healthcare Risk Managers’ Forum was told.
The June Healthcare Risk Managers’ Forum (HRMF) Educational and Networking Meeting made a presentation to Ms. Maria McInerney, who was a founding member and the second chairperson of the organisation.
The new HSE Integrated Care model will deliver services across Integrated Care Areas (ISAs), where one person will be responsible for all hospital and community services, Damien McCallion told the HMI Forum.
Conor Hannaway looks at some of the practical issues facing managers who wish to manage older employees in a more positive way and to avoid the legal issues that arise from a claim of age discrimination.
Justin O’Toole finds an island where you can have a great family holiday and still find the kind of adventure that would make even Michael Schumacher nervous.
The mass vaccination programme against the H1N1 virus possibly represented the biggest logistical exercise ever undertaken in such a short time, write Drs. Pat Doorley, and Kevin Kelleher.
While there is agreement on how major acute work should be carried out we now need to examine how and where the rest of patient care and treatment should be delivered, Brian Gilroy told the HMI Forum.
The new APEX Tracker which has been developed specifically for use in the Irish health services can be used as an everyday tool to plan, monitor and control a myriad of performance goals across the organisation as it focuses on the dynamics of performance as well as data collection.