Planning health care in Scotland.

Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland

Since 1997 the development of partnership working across the public sector has been one of the key themes of UK government policy (Balloch and Taylor 2001). One area where partnership working has had a major influence has been in the field of health and social care. Whilst a diverse range of partnership mechanisms have developed between health and social care (Dowling et al 2004), equally diver...

Health care planning in Slovenia.

Two of the most important current dimensions of health planning and administration in the Republic of Slovenia are the regionalization of its health services and the recent amalgamation of its health insurance programs for workers and farmers. Slovenian health services and health insurance programs first were organized in the post-war government on a regional basis in 1951. Separate health insu...

The development of integrated health care models in Scotland

Integrated health care is a key policy aim of Scotland's newly devolved government. 'Partnership working' is the mechanism that has been selected to achieve this goal. Three illustrative examples of health care integration models developed in Scotland are considered; system organisation and structure; Local Health Care Co-operatives (LHCCs); and Managed Clinical Networks. Using these examples t...

Improving Manpower Planning in Health Care

In many countries manpower problems in the field of health care are regular items on the agenda of policy makers. To avoid mismatches between demand of care and supply of care on national and regional levels, manpower planning models and methods are used to determine adequate numbers of medical specialists to fulfil the future demand of care. A key question is which factors should be included i...

Personalized Health Planning in Primary Care Settings