Yearly Archives: 2011

New HSE investigative process

A first draft of a new HSE investigation process has now been developed, Cora McCaughan, Chair of the HSE Investigation Process Working Group (IPWG) told a recent HRMF Forum

Going Lean in the HSE

Carole Broadbank writes about the lean journey which has been started in South Tipperary General Hospital

Lean Leadership

Maureen Browne describes how senior leaders, partners, GPs, the local authority and patient representative organisations worked together to design a new organisation focusing much more on transformational activity along the whole end-to-end pathway with a much bigger focus on population health.

A Kaizen event in Tallaght

Mary Hickey explains how “lean” helped to improve the flow in the Trauma Orthopaedics OPD Department, in the Adelaide & Meath incorporating the National Children’s Hospital in Tallaght.

Financial impact of new technology

Budget Impact Analysis (BIA) guidelines will provide health service managers who have to make hard decisions with the best possible information on the best use of healthcare resources, writes Dr. Mάirίn Ryan.

Seismic change for Dublin voluntary hospitals

A seismic change is underway in the structures of Dublin voluntary hospitals, with moves to establish Academic Health Centres (AHCs), new groupings and mergers between voluntary hospitals themselves and between voluntary hospitals and HSE hospitals in Dublin and in the wider eastern area

Over 2,000 exit the health services

A total of 2,003 staff exited the health service at the end of December, via the Government’s early retirement and voluntary severance packages. Of these, 641 took early retirement and 1,362 took voluntary severance.

Director of Risk, Quality & Clinical Care

Dr. Philip Crowley has been appointed as the HSE’s new National Director of Risk, Quality and Clinical Care

Children and Family Services’ Chief

Mr. Gordon Jeyes has been appointed by the HSE as the new National Director for Children and Family Services.

The HMI Christmas dinner

The HMI Annual Christmas Dinner took place in McKee Barracks in Dublin.

President’s Message

We must develop management science capability

Unlocking HMI potential

The HMI is undertaking a major re-structuring which will point the Institute in a new direction in terms of serving its members, writes HMI President, Richard Dooley

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