2012
Cover Story: Leadership. Sue Hodgetts believes that effective leadership is key to the smooth running of a hospital and shares with us the three fundamental axioms of leadership. Prof. Malik introduces us to uncluttered management thinking and Amanda Goodall asks: Do physician leaders improve hospital performance?
Management: Ensuring Quality of Outsourced Cleaning and Sanitisation; More Than Time and Money: Defining Operating Room Efficiency
Medtech:The New Central Sterile Supply Department of University Hospital Authority St. Orsola- Malpighi Polyclinic; Are You Optimising…Your Capital Equipment Investment?
Country Focus: Poland
2011
Cover Story: Personnel Management. Josef Hradsky highlights the need for adequate staff training in our hospitals. Pauline King discusses staff counseling services and Paul Dhillon examines the cost of using locum doctors.
Feature: Health Promoting Hospitals
Management: The Patient Room: Room for Improvement
Medtech: New Surgery and Emergency Centre of University Hospital Authority S. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic
Country Focus: France
Cover Story: Patient-Centred Management. Articles include an interview with Tomasz Szelagowski from the European Patients' Forum; Care Pathways: Customising Care to Meet the Changing Needs of Today's Patients; and Tackling Undernutrition in Hospitalised Patients.
Feature: Capital in the City: Investing in the Hospital of the Future
Management: Hospital Mergers: Managing Complex Change in A Complex Environment
Medtech: Prescribing Efficiency
Country Focus: UK
Cover Story: Information Technology. Articles include Data Centre Trends in the Healthcare Sector; Keeping Track of Your Hospital's Resources using Asset Management Systems and Telemedicine for the Rural Poor.
Features: Infections: Continuous Disinfection of the Hospital Environment; Protecting Patients from Clostridium Difficile Infection
Management: Dialectics and Leadership; Atrial Fibrillation: How AWARE are you?
Medtech: Laboratory Management
Country Focus: Belgium
Cover Story: Legal. Articles include an interview with Dr. Marzi, Head of Vienna General Hospital's Legal Department; The Legal Emergency Kit and The Ethical and Legal Challenges of E-Health.
Feature: Facility Management: Optimising Efficiency
Management: How to Conduct Staff Appraisals
Pharma Special: Interview: Dr. Roberto Frontini; Pharmacoeconomic Issues in Breast Cancer Therapy; E-Prescribing in the ICU
Country Focus: Hungary
2010
Cover Story: Crisis Management: Managing the AH1N1 Crisis; How an Irish Hospital Handled the Volcanic Ash Cloud Crisis; Hospital Disaster Response
Management: Financing in Crisis: The French Experience; Energy Efficient Hospitals; Malnutrition in European Hospitals
Medtech: Investing in Hybrid Imaging Technology; Sustaining the Future of Nuclear Medicine
Country Focus: Spain
Cover Story: This issue is a review of the 23rd EAHM Congress, “Roadmap to Top Quality”. Our dossier summarises each presentation with perspectives on quality from across Europe.
Management: Making a Healthy Workforce for a Healthy Economy
Medtech: The Integrated OR: An 'In-House' Customer Satisfaction Survey
Country Focus: Luxembourg
Cover Story: Design. Articles discuss evidence-based design, design for patient dignity and environmental design.
Feature: Is Hospital Downsizing an Effective Way to Control Health Expenditure?
Management: Art for Health: Use of Art in Hospital Space
Medtech: Applications of Telecardiology: Recommendations for its Use in Practice
Country Focus: Switzerland
Cover Story: Training and Education for Hospital Managers
Feature: Value Models: a Novel form of Enterprise Modelling
Management: Waste Management for Hospitals in the 21st Century
Medtech: Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Use in the ICU
Country Focus: Ireland
Cover Story: Public Relations and Communication. Articles discuss media training for hospital managers, social media, and marketing and clinical leadership.
Feature: Supplier Relationship Management in Practice
Management: French Healthcare Reform, The National Paediatric Toolkit
Medtech: The National PACS Programme in England
Country Focus: Germany
2009
Cover Story: Financing. Articles discuss Voucher Schemes for public health, public private partnerships and diagnosis related groups.
Feature: Sustainable Healthcare
Management: Managing Clinical Communication for Patient Safety
Medtech: Portable Ultrasound
Country Focus: The Netherlands
Cover Story: Weathering the Recession. Articles discuss strategies to weather the recession, the recession in Ireland and cost-effectiveness analysis
Feature: Cultural Integration
Management: Accreditation for Ambulatory Facilities, the Effectiveness of Nurse-Led Clinics
Medtech: PAPT- Patient Admissions Prediction Tool
Country Focus: Italy
Cover Story: Patient Mobility. Articles discuss medical tourism, quality indicators for international hospital patients, and patient safety in relation to patient mobility.
Feature: Competition- Rate My Hospital and the Databank Programme
Management: Clinical Waste Hazards and Facility Management Costs in the OR
Medtech: IT and Medical Technology
Country Focus: Croatia
Cover Story: Hygiene. Articles discuss cost-effective infection control, automated hand hygiene monitoring and improving hospital hygiene through environmental design.
Feature: Integrated Care
Management: Postponing is Poison and Managing Information Systems Security
Medtech: Innovative IT Solutions for Asset Management
Country Focus: Turkey
Cover Story: E-Health. Articles discuss e-health investment, ICT usage in the hospital environment and patient safety and e-health.
Feature: Human Resources and Staff Retention
Medtech: Should we Buy an Oncology Management System?
Country Focus: Lithuania
