Conferences

AEMH Conference 2011

"Skill Mix in Hospitals"

                  Montreux, 26 May 2011

WELCOME and OPENING – Setting the scene

Joao de Deus, AEMH-President  – Pierre-François Cuénoud, Board member FMH Swiss Medical Association

Moderator: Hrvoje Sobat, AEMH-Treasurer and chair of the working group “Patients’ safety and task shifting”.

Skill-mix matters: what next towards sustainable hospital management?

Skill mix is the combination of activities or the various skill levels of health professionals required to provide effective care, either within a particular discipline or for the total staff within a health organisation.

Teamwork and Collaborative Care

A team is a collection of individuals who are interdependent in their tasks but share responsibility for outcomes. Effective teamwork improves the quality of patient care, enhances patient safety, and reduces workload issues that cause burnout among healthcare professionals.
Collaborative Care is the provision of comprehensive health services to patients by multiple health care professionals who work collaboratively to deliver the best quality of care. It encompasses partnership, collaboration and a multi-disciplinary approach to enhancing care outcomes.

Hospital Staff Assessment

Recognition of qualification of hospital doctors

Shortage of hospital doctors

Task Shifting

In health care, the term "Task Shifting" is used to describe a situation where a task normally performed by a certain type of health professional is transferred to a health professional with a different or lower level of education and training, or to a person specifically trained to perform a limited task only, without having a formal health education. Task shifting occurs both in countries facing shortages of physicians and those not facing shortages.