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Response to Affordability, Rationing and Aid

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Tony writes: I have read this article with great interest, and concern as its such a complex problem but need to be solved by us all as world citizens. Yes times are very hard at the moment, yes the UK can be proud of its record of being one of the first countries in line [...]

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Affordability, Rationing and Aid

Posted in Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Foundation, Primary Healthcare, tagged , , , , , , on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Over the last few weeks I’ve been reviewing the cost and affordability of our Community Based healthcare services, which are often given free or at a heavily subsidised, low cost to the patient. During this review, it has become obvious that if we want these programmes to be sustainable then we will have to ration [...]

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Exam Time

Posted in Business of Health Care, International Health Sciences University, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I sat in the exam room staring at the paper and slowly it dawned on me, I couldn’t answer any of it. I could feel the panic rising and, as is normal in this situation, I was buck naked. Last week International Health Sciences University, in Kampala Uganda, held its 2nd Graduation Ceremony. 91 students [...]

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The End of the Beginning

Posted in Business of Health Care, Dr. Ian Clarke, International Medical Foundation, International Medical Group, tagged on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

A good friend of mine, Dr. Nick Wooding, often tells me that we often over-estimate what we might achieve in just 2 years but under-estimate what we can achieve in 5. About 3 years ago I sat with another good friend, Dr. Ian Clarke, and we talked about the 5 year plan that we had [...]

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Primary Healthcare in East Africa

Posted in Business of Health Care, International Medical Group, Primary Healthcare, tagged , , on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Dr. Nick Wooding kindly asked me to write a preface for a book about to be published by International Health Sciences University which discusses the many aspects and issues related to the delivery of primary healthcare in the developing world, and in Uganda specifically. >>> PHC in East Africa: Preface If you are a healthcare [...]

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Budget Too Small To Cover Health Needs

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , on March 15, 2011 | Comments Off

I read an interesting article on allAfrica.com, written by Miriam Gathigah, about the state of the health budget in Kenya. Essentially it seems that the government of Kenya has reduced the percentage of the national budget, USD 12.5b, allocated to the health sector from 7% to 6.5%. Botswana and the Seychelles are the only African [...]

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Only 1% of Ugandans Have Health Insurance

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged on March 14, 2011 | Comments Off

hoping in 5yrs raise number of persons covered in #Uganda for pre-paid or health ins from 150,000 to >500,000; still only 1% of population— Kevin Duffy (@KevinDTweets) March 14, 2011 More on the Business of Healthcare here…

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UK Aid as a share of National Income

Posted in Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In the last few weeks there’s been a lot of discussion about UK overseas aid. (on Twitter #AidReview) DFID has just completed a thorough review of all the programmes that it supports and has announced some changes planned for the next few years. Essentially the UK Government is committed to sharing up to 0.7% of [...]

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Cost of Providing Universal Coverage

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , , on February 27, 2011 | Comments Off

The Uganda Ministry of Health has set an overall goal to achieve Universal Coverage. If achieved this would enable all of its population to seek care without financial constraint or any concern of financial hardship as a result of accessing health services. It would also imply that required health services were easily accessible and available [...]

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Health Budgets Compared

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The UK Government has allocated £122b to the 2010 health budget. So for each of its 62m population that equates to £1,956 per annum. That’s a lot and is one of the reasons for the current NHS review. The Government of Uganda has allocated £482m on a purchasing power parity basis. (£1 in Uganda can [...]

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