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Article

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

3. MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, Health care sciences and services

Publication Details

Administration, vol. 65, no. 4 (2017), pp. 83–99

doi: 10.1515/admin-2017-0035

Abstract

For more than a decade, health policy in Ireland has pushed the centrality of the patient in the delivery and management of healthcare services, including the development of a National Strategy for Service User Involvement in the Health Service 2008–2013 (Health Service Executive, 2008). More recently, the need to provide a ‘patientcentred’ (Department of Health, 2012, 2013, 2014) or ‘person-centred’ (Department of Health, 2016) service has been a guiding principle of health policy documents. The National Service Plan 2017 (Health Service Executive, 2016) also outlines the importance of increasing the rates of service user engagement and feedback across the health sector. According to the Department of Health (2012, 2016), recent reform of Irish healthcare has been specifically designed to develop a ‘patient-centred’ or ‘person-centred’ healthcare system which will deliver improved patient outcomes and population health.

DOI

10.1515/admin-2017-0035

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