Search Tag: patient-centred care
2025 22 Jun
In the healthcare sector, strategic planning is a foundational discipline essential to organisational performance. Hospitals no longer treat planning as a periodic administrative task; instead, it has become a continuous, integrated process that drives competitiveness, resource optimisation and patient-centred care. Simultaneously, strategic aggressiveness—marked...Read more
2025 13 Feb
Organisational professionalism (OP) in healthcare extends beyond individual competence and ethical behaviour to encompass the collective culture, governance and accountability frameworks of institutions. High-performing healthcare organisations recognise that fostering OP is essential for maintaining public trust, ensuring patient-centred care...Read more
2025 12 Feb
Organisational professionalism (OP) in healthcare extends beyond individual competence and ethical behaviour to encompass the collective culture, governance and accountability frameworks of institutions. High-performing healthcare organisations recognise that fostering OP is essential for maintaining public trust, ensuring patient-centred care and...Read more
2025 28 Jan
Value analysis plays a pivotal role in helping healthcare organisations make well-informed decisions that enhance patient care while optimising resources and managing costs. This structured approach goes beyond evaluating financial impacts by assessing the overall value of products, services and technologies. Integrating value analysis into core...Read more
2025 19 Jan
Effective communication plays a pivotal role in delivering patient-centred care in radiography. As radiographers interact with patients during diagnostic and interventional procedures, their ability to convey information clearly and compassionately can significantly impact patient experience, trust and safety. The European Society of Radiology...Read more
2024 02 Dec
Effective communication is the backbone of success across all industries, but in healthcare, it is particularly vital. The ability to convey ideas, share information and collaborate with diverse teams is crucial to delivering quality patient care and ensuring organisational efficiency. Strong communication not only fosters collaboration but also...Read more
2024 17 Nov
Automation is transforming healthcare administration, turning a historically resource-intensive area into an efficient, patient-centred system. Integrating advanced technologies enables healthcare organisations to reduce inefficiencies, improve compliance and enhance the quality of care. With administrative tasks accounting for a significant portion...Read more
2024 28 Oct
In recent years, patient-centred care has become the cornerstone of healthcare practice, focusing on involving patients in decision-making. Central to this evolution is the patient decision aid (PDA), a tool designed to help individuals comprehend their healthcare choices, weigh the benefits and risks, and participate actively in decisions about...Read more
2020 16 Mar
Today, 16 March 2020, submission of entries for the International Hospital Federation (IHF) Awards 2020 has opened. The awards will be presented during the 44th IHF World Hospital Congress (WHC) to be held on 2-5 November 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. You may also like : Winners of the IHF Awards 2019 The IHF Awards...Read more
2020 29 Jan
2020 marks the start of a new decade and, with factors such as the Silver Tsunami, digitalisation and emerging technologies that still have to prove their worth in the mix, it’s one which will be game-changing. HealthManagement.org spoke to four experts on what changes they think will lead to the most beneficial transformation in healthcare over the...Read more
2019 24 Jul
A new collaboration between the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Harvard Business School' s (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness aims to improve healthcare value. The initiative's ultimate objective is to develop a tool that hospitals can use to better measure quality and cost of care delivery. Officials from both organisations,...Read more
2019 22 May
International transfer of successful lessons and strategies is essential for improving quality, accessibility and affordability of healthcare services. Innovators in both developed and developing nations have found ways to deliver healthcare at a significantly lower cost while increasing access and quality, but we need more...Read more
2018 07 Nov
The patient, the whole patient and nothing but the patient. Clinical competence and limiting factors. In this short opinion piece, carer and consumer advisor Belinda MacLeod-Smith challenges us to consider crucial elements of whole patient care, and how they can be impacted by limiting factors. Caring for someone with ongoing, occasionally...Read more