Monthly Archives: December, 2013

Thank you and well done!

Reverting to the 2006 level of funding for the health services in 2014 is bound to have profound consequences, writes Denis Doherty.

New CEO of Mater Northern Ireland joins EAHM Chief Nursing Officer Department of Health Chairs of new hospital groups New cardiology centre for Crumlin Programme Director for Paediatric Hospital European Association of Hospital Managers developing new working model

Health managers are seriously concerned about the service implications of the latest HSE exit package which they say is clouded in confusion and has a completely unacceptable timescale which will not enable them to prepare contingency plans to ensure continuity of services. Maureen Browne reports.

The paradigm of care needs to be changed to adopt methodologies appropriate to the needs of the population and to improve patient experience, if we are to maintain and improve quality while taking out cost, write Dr. Peter Lachman, Lead International Faculty RCPI, and Paul Rafferty, Quality Improvement & Organisational Consultant.

The new hospital groups could utilise an Academic Healthcare Centre (AHC) model to provide overarching governance structures for the relationship between hospitals within the groups and their relationship to their primary academic partners, Prof. John R. Higgins, former Chair of the Strategic Board for the Establishment of Hospital Groups, told a meeting of the HMI South Region in the South Infirmary/Victoria University Hospital, Cork. Maureen Browne reports.

Lucy Nugent writes about the foundation and objectives of the first dedicated international group to represent healthcare managers.

In HIQA we recognise that the regulation of residential and residential respite services for children and adults with disabilities provided by the HSE, private organisations or voluntary bodies will present challenges for providers and managers, writes Phelim Quinn.

Revised national guidelines on the economic evaluation and budget impact analysis of health technologies have been launched for consultation by the Health Information and Quality Authority.

Mark Solon suggests that health managers can be proactive in making their own retirement arrangements – whether through additional voluntary pension provision, savings and investments - or by adjusting their expectations of when they plan to retire and the type of retirement they want to have.

Breakthrough is a new addition to the suite of accredited training programmes provided by HMI for frontline and middle managers across all types of health service organisations, writes Karen Maher.

Health managers may be interested in these events.