BACKGROUND South Africa has large public and private sectors and there is a common perception that public sector hospitals are inefficient and ineffective while the privately owned and managed hospitals provide superior care and are more sustainable. The underlying assumption is that there is a potential gap in management capacity between the two sectors. This study aims to ascertain the skills...

BACKGROUND Specialist training was established in the late 1990s at the Fiji School of Medicine. Losses of graduates to overseas migration and to the local private sector prompted us to explore the reasons for these losses from the Fiji public workforce. METHODS Data were collected on the whereabouts and highest educational attainments of the 66 Fiji doctors who had undertaken specialist trai...

Abstract Mariana Mazzucato embraces state-directed public/private investment in innovation to achieve goals that society as a whole would benefit from. The idea is the state should direct and private sphere perform needed. We argue this view biased toward successful examples of created by public sector steering performing. Generally, vested interests are these kinds public-steering–private-perf...

Well established governance, risk and compliance functions have for many years formed a key part of management practice in both the private and public sectors in Australia. A relatively new concept, " GRC " , has emerged, which emphasises on building a closer interrelationship between governance, risk and compliance, and how these functions can be further integrated to increase their effectiven...

International Food Policy Research Institute discussion papers contain preliminary materials and research results and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most discussion papers will eventually be published in some other form, and their content may be revised. ABSTRACT Public-private partnerships offer potentially ...

Contracting out of health services to the private sectors has been the subject of extensive debate and discussion among health personnel and policymakers. Outsourcing is now considered as a useful management tool for health care managers in the public sector. Outsourcing increases efficiency and service quality, reduces costs, focuses on core processes, improves skills, enhances the overall com...

Analysis of data collected in a 1994-95 survey of accredited New South Wales hospitals examined the adoption of key elements of total quality management practice in the public and private sectors. In a number of areas of practice widely considered to be central to a hospital's total quality management efforts, there was no statistically significant difference between the two sectors. Where diff...