Anonymous |
Minimise Administrative Spending
Feb 19 2008, 8:07 PM EST
Health has become highly monitored, administered and accounted. There is a tendency towards spending a significant proportion of the health budget on highly paid managers and administrative staff. In countries like the UK, up to half of the entire health budget is spent on administration. These expenditures have to be rationalised. Indeed, there is a role for management in improving the efficiency of our health system, but not at the expense of patient care and grass-roots medical care. Often, these managers have no health background and as such cannot empathise fully with the challenges faced by patients, doctors and nurses. We need to expect more from this system, and cannot expect that it regulate itself. Its time for management to forego lush air-conditioned natural-wood board rooms in favour of better patient care. Its fair to expect management to better understand health care needs at the coal face, rather than through the clean comfort of statistics and budgets. Finally, its only appropriate that managerial spending and performance be transparent and accountable to the public.
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