Faced with the challenges of healthcare reform, skills and new capabilities are needed to support the reform and it is of crucial importance in Africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. Edwards et al provides a good example of the challenge of implementing a mentoring program in one province in a sub-Saharan country. From this example, various aspects of strengthening the cap...

The increase in healthcare costs is a source of concern in most health systems, and the adoption of measures to control costs is at the center of current health policies in most European countries. Efficiency has become a key concern for hospital managers, who are under pressure to provide more services at a lower cost. Associated with this concern, there is an increasing interest of hospital m...

In a changing context, the use of knowledge management (KM) generates value and long-lasting competitive advantage. As critical issue for societal development, sustainable organisations must consider relationship between KM healthcare. They investigate how is created identify potential predictors knowledge-sharing behaviour to support hospital’s long-term knowledge-management strategy. Managers...

Debates often arise about who is best suited to manage a healthcare organization. Therefore, we argue that an examination of the ability of healthcare organizations' chief executive officers (CEOs) to make strategic decisions is warranted. Is the most appropriate leader the medically educated CEO, whose training in patient care allows him or her to be most cognizant of the quality-of-care needs...

OBJECTIVE To explore healthcare staffs' and managers' perceptions of how and when discrete event simulation modelling can be used as a decision support in improvement efforts. DESIGN Two focus group discussions were performed. SETTING Two settings were included: a rheumatology department and an orthopaedic section both situated in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Healthcare staff and managers (n=13) ...

BACKGROUND Care-managers are responsible for the public administration of individual healthcare decisions and decide on the volume and content of community healthcare services given to a population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the conflicting expectations and ethical dilemmas these professionals encounter in their daily work with patients and to discuss the clinical implication...