Welcome to Health Policy and Management

Professor Charles Normand, Head of the Centre

The Centre of Health Policy and Management aims to produce high quality research to improve the performance of health systems, both internationally and within the Irish context. Its main focus is to improve the equity, efficiency and financial sustainability of the funding, management and delivery of health care services.

Research to date has concentrated on:

• Evaluations of Services (relating to neonatal technologies, heart disease, epilepsy, cervical cancer and the major cancers)
• Evaluating the potential for social health insurance, including forecasting future financial requirements
• Reviewing the effect of reforming organizational structures on the delivery of health services
• Assessing access to primary healthcare providers
• Improving organizational learning within government
• Improving the motivation and retention of health professionals
• The consequences of population ageing on health and social care

Team members are currently involved in policy advice and consultancies in many countries including Ireland, the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Bangladesh, South Africa, Malawi and Ethiopia.

The Centre also conducts postgraduate teaching through the Masters in Health Services Management programme. Working in conjunction with the RCSI and UCC, a Postgraduate Research Programme is offered through the HRB PhD Scholars Programme in Health Services Research.