Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Introduction: The current and future challenges of healthcare management
Health Systems
- The politics of healthcare and the health policy process: implications for healthcare management.
- Financing healthcare: funding systems and healthcare costs.
Allocating resources for healthcare: setting and managing priorities.
- Research, innovation and health technology assessment.
- Health and well-being: the wider context for healthcare management.
- Global health policy: governing health systems across borders.
Healthcare Services
- Healthcare services: strategy, direction and delivery.
- Primary healthcare.
- Chronic disease and integrated care.
- Acute care: elective and emergency, secondary and tertiary.
- Mental health.
Healthcare Organisations
- Purchasing healthcare.
- Buildings, facilities and equipment.
- Informatics for healthcare systems.
- The healthcare workforce.
- Utalise perspectives and involvement.
Healthcare Management and Leadership
- leadership and governance.
- Personal and organizational development in healthcare.
- Managing change.
- Managing resources.
- Managing people.
- Quality improvement in healthcare.
- Managing performance.
- Managing strategic collaboration.
- Evidence-based decision making for managers.
