Leading large scale change

Tallaght Hospital in Dublin doubled the number of patients going through its Emergency Department between March and September last year, the hospital CEO, Ms. Eilish Hardiman told the 9th National Health Summit in Dublin.  Maureen Browne reports. Tallaght Hospital in Dublin doubled the number of patients going through its Emergency Department between March and September last year, the hospital CEO, Ms. Eilish Hardiman told the Conference. Ms Eilish... Read More

Invest in our professional development

HMI President, Richard Dooley called for strategic investment in the ongoing and formalised professional development of health service managers, as part of the health service reform, when he opened the inaugural HMI National Annual Conference in Farmleigh. HMI President, Richard Dooley He warned that any reform must be radical and could not be built on a service model that was no longer fit for purpose and our solutions must be sustainable.  This... Read More

Delivering, managing and governing our health service

The first Annual HMI Conference, which packed the enormous ballroom in Farmleigh (with a waiting list for cancellations) threw up new and exciting ideas on how a reformed health service might be delivered, managed and governed, writes  Maureen Browne. The need for strategic investment in the ongoing and formalised professional development of health service managers turned out to be a major theme of the HMI’s first Annual National Conference, held... Read More

Do we need managers or leaders?

It became increasingly obvious as the HMI Conference progressed that managers require an amalgam of the competencies associated with both leadership and management, writes Conor Hannaway. It is the time of year when we can still talk about turkeys voting for an early Christmas.  There was a good example of this phenomenon recently in academic circles when Dr. Preston Bottger, Professor of Leadership at IMD and his colleague, Dr. Jean-Louis Barsoux... Read More