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Leading Management and Organisation Development for the Health Services. Whose Health Service is it Anyway?.
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Leading Managementand Organisation Developmentfor the HealthServices Whose Health Service is it Anyway?
Public and Patient Partnership in Healthcare:Outline of Discussion PaperProfessor Hannah McGeeHealth Services Research CentreDepartment of PsychologyRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Partnership: what is it? • Promoting patient participation in own care • Enabling patients to become informed about • treatment & to make informed choices • Involving patients & carers in improving • service quality • Involving the public as citizens in health • service decision-making processes
Partnership: why? • Crisis intervention • Reforms/restructuring • Safety & complaints systems • Quality in healthcare movement • Increased voice of patients & advocates
Partnership in Ireland • NATIONAL HEALTH STRATEGY (2001) • Goal No. 3: responsive & appropriate • care delivery • Objective 1: The patient is at the centre in • the delivery of care • Participation: one-to-one / care management / • community involvement
Principles of Partnership I • Rights-based approach • Commitment to building trust • Flexible & accessible communication process • Motivation & commitment to partnership • Flexibility & willingness to adapt • Ethos of fairness & accountability
Principles of Partnership II • Mutual co-operation & support • Concern for process as well as outcome • Commitment to delegate power equally • Commitment to embedding partnership • within & across health system structures • Commitment to financial support
ENABLERS Intrinsic respect Increased adherence Increased health responsibility Increased staff satisfaction Health Strategy (2002) BARRIERS Paternalism Fear of loss of control Inequity Time/other pressures Lack of staff support Factors enabling/mitigating against participation
Evaluation of partnership: key questions WHY?………aims, clarity of purpose HOW? …….right approach, clear roles, involvement in planning, use of feedback, timescales WHAT?……techniques, expectations met, appropriate information & views sought WHO?……..representatives, support given to participation
Participation: the three ‘Ps’ • Purpose (what to achieve?) • Process (how to do it?) • Personal integrity • (‘keeping your word’)
Information needs for partnership • Strategies for participation • How to be effective as participant • Making links with participants • Integrating feedback into QI • Role of consumer councils • Why public input is important • Patient satisfaction surveys • Working with particularly excluded groups
Partnership Paper: key points • Emphasis on process as much as outcome • Role of quality in healthcare movements • Dedicated structures (legislative, administrative & educational) & coordinating centres • Explicitly identified partners • Staff as partners
Partnership? • Change is inevitable……
Partnership? • Change is inevitable…… • …..….except from • slot machines……