Health Manager March 2013

Leading healthcare speakers from Ireland and abroad will discuss and debate the future of the Irish healthcare service and the way forward... Read more »

A Time for Brave Decisions Those of us who attended the HMI/RCPI Leadership Briefing on 5th March last in RCPI can only... Read more »

What a pity then that Croke Park ll not only involves further cuts in the income of most public servants but has... Read more »

HSE appoints Chief Operations Officer Mercy Urgent Care Centre opened New Mater Emergency Department Phoenix Care Centre opened Investment needed in preventive... Read more »

A prospective case-based payment system (Diagnosis Related Group system) will replace the current block grant allocation payment to public hospitals; it is... Read more »

HSE allocations to voluntary hospitals have been particularly controversial this year, following the HSE decision to “re-balance” hospital budgets, writes Maureen Browne.... Read more »

A Programme Management Office and a Health Reform Programme Board are being established in the Department of Health as part of the... Read more »

One of the greatest challenges facing the Irish health services was to ensure that diminishing resources were absolutely focused on the core... Read more »

Tallaght Hospital in Dublin doubled the number of patients going through its Emergency Department between March and September last year, the hospital... Read more »

The system of funding the Irish health services needs a seismic overhaul, Mr. Brian Fitzgerald, CEO, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, told the... Read more »

More patient self-management will be a feature of the health services in the future, Mr. Kieran Ryan, CEO, Irish College of General... Read more »

Patients in Ireland still believed they were not getting out of the health system what was being put into it, Prof. John... Read more »

The chances of achieving all change objectives were pretty poor and the key question for leaders was to see what they could... Read more »

A presentation on how one organisation achieved major savings and introduced an effective performance management process on the back of the ‘Croke... Read more »

Finance managers needed to have a knowledge of clinical quality and clinicians needed to have a basic financial knowledge of hospital costs,... Read more »

Spain has 17 autonomous health services and 17 Ministers for Health, Mr. Santiago Delgado, Deputy Manager of the Ribera Salud Grupo, a... Read more »

Opening the joint HMI/RCPI seminar on “Leading and Managing in a High Performance Health System,” the President of the HMI, Mr. Richard... Read more »

Michael J. Dowling, President & CEO of a New York health system with 16 hospitals and the full continuum of care from... Read more »

An incredible commitment to educating the next generation of all medical care givers, including medical administrators, is the common purpose which glues... Read more »

THE proposed Croke Park II presents special challenges for public service managers, especially for those who ‘sat on the sidelines’ when Croke... Read more »