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GROUP CASE STUDY: CENTRAL PRIVATE HOSPITAL
INTERVIEW NOTES FROM THE HOSPITAL MANAGER
The Central Private Hospital medical care scheme offers exclusive private medical care to any person who possesses a valid membership. The scheme allows for both planned and emergency treatment in over 10 different European countries. The Hospitals themselves (some 200) are organised into 6 Regional Health Areas (RHA), with each RHA supervising and managing the activities of several hospitals, with control sometimes spanning more than one country.
Prospective members can join by submitting to an initial medical examination and paying a ‘life time membership’ joining fee. Membership is also then paid for each year in additional monthly instalments, at a level determined by the scheme owners. The scheme entitles the member to medical costs cover (up to a predetermined limit) and access to some of the most modern hospital facilities and specialists at a time convenient to the member. Any care or treatment required is provided at no cost to the individual member. Currently there are around 50,000 members registered on the CPMCS scheme. Membership records hold the membership number, member name and address, D.O.B., sex, membership start date and membership renewal date.
Patients who are members arrange appointments on an Out-Patient basis with a specialist consultant, who decides on the urgency of the case and then schedules an In-patient admission with the patient. Each specialist passes those admissions to be scheduled to the relevant hospital, and when beds are available the hospital admissions reserve a bed and the planned admission date is added to the specialist waiting list entry. A patient may see several specialists at any one time, and thus be on several waiting lists.
Each Hospital is made up of a number of organisational units. An organisational unit can be either a ward unit or a specialist unit. All organisational units have a unique code and...