Hospital Management

Hospitals play a very important role in the delivery of healthcare services. With advances in the field of medicine, hospitals are able to offer a wide variety of health services and in doing so, hospitals depend on modern technology, consume large amounts of resources, and have thus become very complex organisations. Hospital management has assumed added significance in the light of increased costs for medical care, the ageing population and the potentially declining levels of service, all of which threaten the quality of service delivered. Liberalization of the insurance sector has added a new dimension to the delivery and pricing of healthcare services. Poor quality of service not only wastes resources but is positively dangerous to the health and welfare of the patients and the community at large. Hospital administrators, therefore, need a certain amount of professional management inputs so as to manage hospitals efficiently and effectively. The impact of Covid 19 with its impact on the use of technology in delivery of care by hospitals and increased interface between private health sector with public health sector and Government has added to the complexity.

The objective of this programme is to equip the senior hospital managers and administrators with the necessary management inputs for efficient and effective management of their hospitals as organisations.