Improved internal communication reduces absenteeism
Absenteeism from work is not only caused by illness but also by stress in the workplace. Promoting employees´identification with the company is a successful therapy in this case.
Staff management
4 steps to successful staff planning
Most hospitals must now report on the origin, cost and usage of all equipment and supplies. However, far less is known about a hospital's most important and expensive* asset: employees. Despite financial pressures, DRGs, and the EuGH judgement, which aims to end stress (particularly for junior doctors) discussion of the economical and effective use of personnel is frequently avoided, or can evoke…
Controversy: the nurse-surgeon
Nurse-surgeon training in the UK is lively discussed for other European countries doing the same to address their lack of qualified surgeons.
A new training scheme for junior doctors
“The UK is at the forefront of worldwide educational practice”.
High flyers and high earners
Thousands of foreign medical professionals underpin the UK's National Health Service (NHS). In 2004, of the country's newly registered medics, two thirds of the doctors, and over 40% of the nurses, had come from other countries. In total, about 72,000 of the UK's 212,000 registered doctors are not British. That figure includes, for example, around 12,500 doctors from Africa and, from the EU,…
Brunel University offers unique Public Health Doctorate
UK - Brunel University is to provide a new three-year course offering a Doctorate in Public Health. The doctorate course, which will commence in October this year, is unique because it is cross-disciplinary, involving internationally recognised academics in medical anthropology, biostatistics, health economics, epidemiology, environmental sciences, health promotion, health services research,…
3-month doctors strike partly over
Berlin, Germany - The three-month university hospital doctors` strike was nearing its end at the time of EH going to press.
Integrated care
Dr Darius Jakubowski, a perinatal specialist and former senior physician at Holweide Hospital, works for three days a week at Holweide Hospital as a resident gynaecologist.
Militancy among medics Will it spread?
Common unrest about pay and conditions leads doctors to strike in Germany and Spain. A report from Germany.
Catalonia doctors strike
In some areas of Spain, doctors are also becoming even militant.
UK nurses in revolt
There is growing unrest in the nursing profession in the UK following announcements of planned job cuts in the NHS.
Success of forum for managers continues
Within the five-days of ECR 2006, the congress management collaborated with European Hospital to hold another two-day:
Controversy
The question of who should manage intensive care was hotly debated at the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS); not always essentially, frequently aggressively, sometimes even insulting says EH Correspondent Holger Zorn
Life-long learning
The case for structured training, board certification and revalidation*
Crossing borders
Radiologists working abroad - the reality
How to manage your radiologist
Radiology in public hospitals is under economic pressure due to limited public funding, partially decreasing radiology fees, capitation payment systems, central planning of capital investment, as well as the increasing complexity and cost of equipment.
Catastrophic care - When hospitals are overwhelmed
Paul E Pepe MD MPH FACEP FCCM, Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and Chair, Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre and the Parkland Health and Hospital System (TSMC&PHHS), Dallas.
Managing complex healthcare organisation
Managing a modern healthcare organisation is complex. Complexity stems from the variables that need to be entertained, which are highly unpredictable.
Six Sigma
Healthcare has no room for inefficiencies. Public healthcare managers, especially for hospitals, have to provide an increasing volume of high-level healthcare services with limited resources.
Work analysis
The problem is ubiquitous: Due to their workload, medical teams cannot accomplish their tasks to everyone’s satisfaction during regular working hours. Is the solution to raise staffing levels? More politics? At a political level a framework could be created but its actual implementation must occur within a facility, because that is where work schedules are drawn up, writes Denise Hennig,…
Catholic medics and human rights
Poland - Many medical workers may soon be ethically challenged by a decision made in Europe's Court of Human Rights regarding a woman who had been refused an abortion there.
Patients in five countries reveal healthcare deficiencies
Disturbingly high rates of medical errors, lack of care co-ordination, poor communication between doctors/patients, and barriers when accessing care, are experienced by patients in the United States (US), Australia, Canada, NZ (NZ) and the United Kingdom (UK).
A&E nurse practitioners
In a three part study in clinical and cost effectiveness of nurse practitioners (published by the BMA in the Emergency Medicine Journal 2003; 20:158-163) a team* from Sheffield University and the Northern General Hospital have concluded that “... a nurse practitioner minor injury service can provide a safe and effective service for the treatment of minor injury. However, the costs of such a…
80% of sharps injuries are avoidable
Injuries caused by needles and other sharp medical devices - and the related risk of potentially fatal disease transmission - remain a major threat to medical staff.
Selling French savoir faire
Understandably, any development or re-design of a healthcare institution is multi-faceted, and, given the changes in healthcare delivery and politics,
