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Midland Health Board annual report 1997
Midland Health Board (MHB)
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1997
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During 1997 the gradual, but steady, transformation of the
way the Board seeks to improve the health of the people it serves
continued. Staff identify to a greater extent with serving care
groups - children, the elderly, the mentally ill, people with
disabilities and episodic illness and injuries- and, to a lesser
extent, with the services themselves. For example, the Board's
Occupational Therapists undertook a fundamental review of their
role as it relates to each of the care groups. As a result these
health professionals will change their professional practices and
influence the professional practices of others in ways which
improve the outcomes users of services can expect to obtain.
Important serious work is taking place which will enable us to
measure the outcomes being obtained and lead to improvements
in quality resulting from the learning which will be derived from
work of that nature. For example, the results of the study, being
led by a doctor working in public health, of the assessed results of
the treatment of 150 patients admitted to the orthopaedic unit,
General Hospital, Tullamore with fractured femurs will inform
future service and clinical practice in that area.
Management by projects is the approach being used to
effect change. The advantage of this approach is that small
projects can individually and collectively contribute to the
overall change process. A unit to facilitate the change process
has been established and a facilitator has been assigned to
facilitate projects relating to each of the care groups.
The geographical sectors chosen for the mental health
services some ten years ago have been adopted for the purpose
of serving the needs of the other care groups also. The principal
advantage of this approach is that it aids the Board's desire to
locate services close to where people live. In addition they are
suitable units for mapping needs and the uptake of services.