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Public Management Versus Private Management
The last few years have been marked by a heated discussion concerning the virtues of private initiative in the delivery of public services. This debate goes beyond reforms in the public sector. We are now dealing with a more radical idea of handing over certain public duties to the private sector, which will be able to carry them out with fewer costs...
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National News
Austria Report Reveals Poor Diet Among the Young Vienna - The rising incidence of conditions such as obesity and bulimia have served to highlight the poor eating habits of young people in the Austrian capital. The problem is most pronounced among students aged between 14 and 24 years. Some 6% of girls in this group are classified...
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EAHM News
Hospital Managers at One with Minister on Specialist Care The German Hospital Society (DKG) have given its full backing to plans by the country’s health minister, social democrat Ulla Schmidt, to open up German hospitals by allowing specialists to provide outpatient care. Hospital managers have welcomed the steps to strengthen specialist...
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EU Affairs
Meeting the Challenge of Patient Mobility within the European Union Rory Watson Health Ministers from almost all 15-member states met for the first time in February to discuss patient m o b i l i t y within the European Union. The existence of this newly created high-level group in Brussels is powerful confirmation that public health...
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EU News
David Byrne Since the mid 1990s, the European Commission has been working towards delivering concrete improvements in the field of health under the slogan, “Europe of the citizens.” While the realisation of a true single market in health is still a long way off in the community of fifteen, a recent meeting of European Union health ministers...
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Outsourcing : A Company Perspective
Author Dr. Manfred Gehrtz, Managing Director, Endoscope Division, and Claudine Ahrens, Manager, Knowledge Management Europe/Hospital Management Services, Olympus Optical Co. (Europa) GmbH Three pilot projects by Olympus offer insight to the challenges, issues and benefits of outsourcing endoscopy departments. The agreements vary...
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Office for Health Management: Ireland
Author D enis D oherty The Office for Health Management was established in June 1997 by the Minister for Health and is funded by the Department of Health and Children. It emerged following the publication, in 1996, of a Management Development Strategy for the Health and Personal Social Services, which recommended...
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An Overview of CAWT in Ireland
Author Paul Robinson - CAWT Director General - Chief Executive Officer NEHB CAWT is the acronym for Cooperation and Working Together, a cross-border health care initiative initiated in 1992 with the signing of the “Ballyconnell Agreement” between the North Eastern and North Western Health Boards in the South of Ireland and the...
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Collaboration Between Hospitals and Primary Health Care in Norway
Author Bjørn Guldvog , MD PhD, Director General, Berit Eivi Nilsen, MSc, Deputy Director General, Christine Furuholmen, MSc, Senior Advisor; Division of Health Care and Social Services - Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs Because of long distances and a dispersed population, Norway needs a flexible health care...
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Crises of Success : Elder Care in Sweden
Author JoAnne Girard An Interview with Lennarth Johansson, Associate Professor, Research Leader, National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden Sweden has been successful in creating social conditions that have achieved one of the longest lifespans in the world. Their welfare system provides...
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