For the first time in 2009, the Euroanaesthesia congress will be held in Milan, Italy, at the Milano Convention Centre (MIC). This meeting, the largest anaesthesiology congress in Europe, will again have a large programme of intensive care topics. It will be organised once more under the leadership of Professor Gernot Marx, recently appointed to the...
READ MOREDie Türkei wandelt derzeit ihr Gesundheitssystem mithilfe des regierungseigenen ‚Health Transformation Programme’ um. Das Programm (HTP) umfasst acht Themen: das Gesundheitsministerium als Plan- und Kontrollautorität neu zu strukturieren; alle Bürger innerhalb eines einzigen Sozialversicherungsinstituts zusammenzufassen; den Zugang zur Gesundheitssorge...
READ MOREVon Daniel Loos Das Management und Controlling von Anlagen stellt für alle Krankenhäuser eine dauerhafte Herausforderung dar. Nichtsdestoweniger wird IT vermehrt und oft erfinderisch eingesetzt, um sich diesen Herausforderungen zu stellen. Das Regionale Hospital St. Trudo in Belgien war auf der Suche nach einer Methode für das Management...
READ MORENHS Pilot Scheme to Bring Health and Social Care Together Health Minister Ben Bradshaw and Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced that 16 pilot sites will participate in a trial to see how health and social care services can join together to increase the quality of care. The 4million pounds scheme has...
READ MORE“Whistleblowers” in the Health Service to be Protected The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney has announced that health staff who report concerns about other members of staff regarding patient safety will now be legally protected. This legal protection is provided under the Protective Disclosures provisions of the Health Act 2007....
READ MORE“Striving For a Healthy Crisis” The Dutch week of public health took place from the 6th to the 12th of April, coinciding with World Health Day. The motto for this year was "Striving for a Healthy Crisis". An initiative of the Dutch Public Health Federation (NPHF), the aim: to generate broad media attention, putting public health on the agenda....
READ MOREGolden Helix Award 2009 The motto of this year’s Golden Helix award is “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.” (John Ruskin). The annual German-Austrian competition to discover innovative and quality improving projects to benefit the hospital sector is held in association with the German Association of...
READ MORECrisis Communication The Association of Regional and University Hospital Directors in France (CHRU) has launched a new guide to hospital crisis communication. The guide is aimed at healthcare professionals (management, doctors, technicians and even students). It has been developed by the French Hospital Federation and MACSF and is distributed...
READ MOREEvaluation Survey of Dependent People Living in Healthcare Institutions The Centre for Health Studies in Luxembourg has been asked by the Ministry of Social Security to carry out an evaluation survey about the satisfaction of dependent people living in healthcare and long stay institutions in Luxembourg. A convention was signed between...
READ MOREPolitical pressure is growing on the European Union and national governments to increase resources in the fight against tuberculosis as new research reveals that 55 people are diagnosed with the disease every hour in Europe. A cross-party group of members of the European Parliament has tabled a written declaration calling on the European...
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