Yearly Archives: 2012

“The HSE’s performance management system is a process for establishing a shared understanding about what is to be achieved and how it is to be achieved and an approach to managing people that increases the probability of achieving success”, Mr. Paddy Duggan, HSE General Manager, Performance Management & Management Information, told the HMI South Forum in Cork. Maureen Browne reports.

She suspected that for those involved in the State-funded origins tracing service, the fall-out from a recent Supreme Court judgments must be quite discouraging, Emily O’Reilly, Ombudsman and Information Commissioner said in a presentation to the Medico Legal Society of Ireland earlier this year.

Health information technologies and eHealth systems are evolving and developing rapidly and before any decision is made on the specific model of eHealth that is appropriate for Ireland, it is essential to explore learnings from elsewhere and ensure that any future investment offers the best value possible and appropriately meets the needs of the Irish people, writes Professor Jane Grimson.

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If innovation and creativity are to be encouraged in any large scale way within the health services, perhaps a comprehensive innovation strategy is required that engages with people at all levels, writes Keith McCarthy.

Managers need to handle their own publicity and social media is the tool of choice for an increasing number of health services organisations, writes Conor Hannaway.

Managers at the forefront of managing our healthcare services are all too familiar with the impact of the current fiscal situation on the resources available to them at a time when the demands on services are continuously increasing.

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Senior Irish health managers are urging that the Minister for Health, the Department of Health and the HSE should open a broad engagement with staff on how the new hospital and community Trusts are to be established and structured – or indeed if they are necessary at all, writes Maureen Browne.

We must re-define structures and functions

On continental Europe, in countries where healthcare is funded by universal insurance, the health insurance companies drive efficiencies and value for money and the smart providers spot trends early and make the changes they believe will allow their hospitals to be sustainable into the foreseeable future, writes Denis Doherty.

The Department of Health will go to public consultation in the next three to six weeks regarding the formation of hospital groups into Trusts, Mr. Tony O’Brien, Chief Operating Officer, Special Delivery Unit (SDU), Department of Health, revealed when he addressed a HMI Dublin Mid Leinster Regional meeting last evening. Maureen Browne reports.

Senior managers from across the health services have proposed radical and innovative measures to alleviate the impact on the services of the current drastic cutbacks, writes Maureen Browne.

The first Joint European Hospital Conference, and the session on the Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare in particular, showed that the issue of cross-border healthcare is far from resolved but that progress can and will be made through further cooperation on a European level. Lee Campbell reports.

At recent HMI Regional Meetings in Leitrim and Limerick, Finbarr Colfer discussed the experience of regulation to date and potential learning for health and social care service managers of sectors that are due to be regulated in the future.

The National Audiology Review Group has developed a comprehensive set of recommendations to address the inconsistencies and inadequacies in audiology services, Aisling Heffernan, told the HMI Forum organised by the HMI Dublin Mid Leinster Regional Committee and held in the Dublin Dental University Hospital.

The aim of the new HSE Emergency Medicine Programme is to improve the safety and quality of patient care in Emergency Departments and to reduce waiting times for patients, Dr. Una Geary, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin and Programme Lead told the HMI Dublin Mid Leinster Forum held in the Dublin Dental University Hospital.

The Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly, T.D., has officially opened the two new National Cancer Control Programme St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Centres at Beaumont and St James’s Hospitals. The launch took place at the St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Centre in Beaumont Hospital.

A new dedicated dermatology department has been opened at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital in Dublin.

Health Minister, Dr. James Reilly, T.D., has appointed members of an Implementation Group on Universal Health Insurance to develop detailed implementation plans for universal health insurance.