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Success of a new health administration strategy
Author(s) -
Hickie John B
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb127456.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , administration (probate law) , decentralization , unit (ring theory) , health administration , medicine , operations management , nursing , public administration , medical emergency , business , political science , psychology , engineering , public health , finance , mathematics education , law
As the result of the restructuring and decentralisation of the administration of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, I was Clinical Chief of a pilot “institute” for three years operating within a “patient‐focused model” in hospital management. By the end of the trial, we had improved performance despite reductions in hospital and unit budgets.