Yearly Archives: 2014

One of the unfortunate things when the HSE was born was that leadership was considered a frivolous activity, Mr. Tom Lynch, Group Chair, Dublin Academic Medical Centre, Ireland East Hospitals Group, told the Conference.

When hospitals were over budget the simplistic view was that it was the fault of managers and not that there was high acuity of in-patients, an increasing population of older people, higher costs of available therapies and a high use of itinerant agency staff, Dr. Tony O’Connell HSE National Director Acute Services told the Conference.

A panel discussion on the challenge of governance, effectiveness and accountability in the new hospital group structures was one of the most stimulating sessions of the Conference.

Mr. Eamonn Fitzgerald, CEO of the Hermitage Clinic and Chair of the National Judging Panel for the HMI Leaders Awards said that when working on the awards he was reminded of the story about the starfish.

There were two joint winners of the HMI Inaugural Leaders Award - Chatterbox and Cork Beats Stress.

There were five finalists in the HMI Leaders Award.

Nine projects received commendations in the HMI Leaders Award.

On the national stage, our health services have remained in the eye of the storm, thus ensuring the constant need for inspiring leaders and professional managers, HMI President, Mr. Derek Greene said when he officially opened the 2014 HMI National Conference.

The Irish health services will need strong leadership and management to ensure that when more resources become available they will result in better outcomes for patients, Health Minister, Dr. Leo Varadkar said when he presented the first HMI Leader Awards.

Leading Healthcare

A total of 149 individual and team healthcare projects from all over Ireland have been entered for the first ever HMI Leaders Award.

The 2014 Health Management Institute of Ireland’s Annual Conference takes place in the DoubleTree by Hotel, at Burlington Road, Dublin on Tuesday, September 23, with an impressive range of national and international speakers.

Now that single party governments appear to be a thing of the past, it would seem to make political sense for parties that are likely to form governments to explore the extent to which they can agree high level policy approaches, writes Denis Doherty.

Minister Varadkar seeks realistic budget for 2015 Minister’s new responsibilities Moving to Healthy Ireland Healthy Ireland Chair New COO for Tallaght New code of conduct for health managers Excellence award for Crumlin Connolly Hospital MRI & AMU CUH is global, green and healthy RCSI Hospitals Managers’ feedback sought on guidelines National standard for clinical terminology Letterkenny Medical Academy HIQA seeks managers views on new standards Ireland’s PCTs and PCCs Schull Primary Care Centre University Hospital Limerick expansion Individual health identifiers Patients referred electronically Updated eprescribing standards

Health managers have welcomed the government decision to establish a Commission of Inquiry into mother and baby homes as a unique opportunity to establish - and learn from - the truth about this difficult period in Irish life, but have warned that if it is to be successful it will have to be properly resourced. Maureen Browne reports.

Maureen Browne examines a government report into the fate of over 23,000 babies born in mother and baby homes in Ireland between 1940 and 1966 which gives an indication of the potential scope of the Murphy Commission.

Health managers have urged the new Health Minister, Dr. Leo Varadkar to end the dilemma where they can only fund newly approved expensive treatments at the expense of equally badly needed existing treatments and services. They also say the Government should take this opportunity to define the kind of health service it wishes to have and not allow it to develop haphazardly at the whim of local political and populist demands. Maureen Browne reports.

It is incumbent on all involved in the provision of Older Peoples Residential Services to familiarise themselves with the new legislation, writes Adrian Ahern.

HSE Chief Operations Officer, Laverne McGuinness writes about the important role which boards play in the governance of organisations and the current situation regarding Compliance Statements.

Progress to date has been painfully slow on the implementation of A Vision for Change, which has at its heart, the objective of achieving a truly modern mental health care service, one which is based in the community, involves the service user and is based on recovery, writes John Saunders, Chairman Mental Health Commission.