...TOPIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN SINGAPORE CASE STUDY PARKWAY HEALTH XXXXXXXX College University of Wales STUDENT ID- Anonymous (XXXX- XXXXX) INDEX 1. Introduction 3 2. Education system 4 3. Healthcare status 5 4. Health care system 5 5. PESTEL analysis 12 6. SWOT analysis 14 7. References 15 INTRODUCTION One of the most prosperous countries in the world was founded just 200 years back. Singapore was founded as a colony by British Empire in 1819. In 1963 it was under Malaysian federation for 2 years but it detached itself from that identity and now is an independent country. Known for the conservatism of its leaders and strong discipline in social controls, Singapore has grown to be one of the most important trading links in the world. Singapore’s port is one of the busiest ports in the world in terms of amount of cargo it handles. The country comprises of Main Island along with 50 small islands and they are linked to Malaysia by bridge and causeway. The location of Singapore is around south eastern Asia, an island between Indonesia and Malaysia. The latitude and longitude coordinates for Singapore are 1 22 N, 103 48 E. With covering a total of 697 sq km, it has land of more than 687sq km and water of somewhere over 10 sq km. It also enjoys a strip of 193 kms of coastline. On the comparison of countries in the world, it lies at 192 rank. The prosperity and the economic importance...
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...Singapore’s Healthcare System Singapore is an island country located in Southeast Asia, between Indonesia and Malaysia with a population of 5.3 million. Recognized and praised for their electrical manufacturing industry, finance and healthcare, Singapore was named the third wealthiest nation in the world by Forbes Magazine for 2012. Singapore has established and received acclaim for a remarkable healthcare system. With government intervention, private sectors and programs that promote healthy living and prevention for citizens, Singapore’s Healthcare System has set a standard and model for the world to rival. While Singapore’s population is only 5.3 million people, a small country compared to others, citizens have a longer life expectancy, on average 84 years. In Mercer’s 2011 Quality of Life survey, Singapore placed 25th in the world. In determining quality of life rankings, focus is brought to political and social environment, housing, education, health and sanitation. There are three government branches that govern Singapore’s healthcare system, Minister of Health (MOH), which promotes health education and prevention, monitors accessibility and the quality of healthcare services. Second, Central Provident Fund (CPF) is responsible for Singapore’s social security savings plan. CPF safeguards working Singaporeans in their retirement, making sure they are able to sustain themselves after retirement. Workers are required to make contributions into three separate...
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... | |Theme 1 | | | |Principles of Governance | |Traffic | |Population | |Healthcare (Singapore and UK) | |...
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...project focuses on how the Singapore government helps its citizens to pay for their healthcare needs. The primary policy that will be discussed will be the Ministry of Health’s 3M framework and a policy analysis will be conducted based on it. A brief introduction of the development of this policy will be provided followed by an evaluation of the policy and recommendations on how to improve the policy. The report will be concluded with a discussion on the impacts that the policy brings about. 1.2 Background Public health care is an emotive issue that remains a major concern of the public in our country. With the rising costs of financing public healthcare systems and the pressing aging problem issue, how our government finances our public health care systems becomes a major issue and debate within our public sector. Hence, I have decided to study on the Singapore’s Ministry of Health and how it plans to help Singaporeans to finance for their health care in a framework known as the “3M Framework”. This was also specially mentioned in the Budget 2008 announced recently and I will also discuss about changes to this framework in the report. 1.3 Objectives This project aims to study the effectiveness of the 3M framework as a financial means to help Singaporeans finance for their healthcare. 1.4 Scope This project will cover a brief history of the Ministry of Health and the 3M framework as well as the framework’s role in Singapore’s public healthcare policy. 1.5 Methodology ...
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...Q3 2010 www.businessmonitor.com siNGapore pharmaceuticals & healthcare report INCLUDES 10-YEAR FORECASTS TO 2019 issN 1748-216X published by Business monitor international ltd. SINGAPORE PHARMACEUTICALS & HEALTHCARE REPORT Q3 2010 INCLUDING 5-YEAR AND 10-YEAR INDUSTRY FORECASTS BY BMI Part of BMI’s Industry Report & Forecasts Series Published by: Business Monitor International Copy deadline: June 2010 Business Monitor International Mermaid House, 2 Puddle Dock, London, EC4V 3DS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7248 0468 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7248 0467 Email: subs@businessmonitor.com Web: http://www.businessmonitor.com © 2010 Business Monitor International. All rights reserved. All information contained in this publication is copyrighted in the name of Business Monitor International, and as such no part of this publication may be reproduced, repackaged, redistributed, resold in whole or in any part, or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by information storage or retrieval, or by any other means, without the express written consent of the publisher. DISCLAIMER All information contained in this publication has been researched and compiled from sources believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of publishing. However, in view of the natural scope for human and/or mechanical error, either at source or during production, Business Monitor International accepts no...
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...Kinder International Healthcare Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. KIHC Service Provision in Management Consultancy NABH accreditation consultancy Develop SOPs, Policies, manuals etc. Organization assessment audit Business process re-engineering Operational and Retainer Management Consulting Hospital Setting up - Women and Children Care o Conceptualization o Designing and Implementation o Staff Recruitment o Commissioning Kinder IVF o Centre design and setting up o Kinder IVF Protocols o Staff Recruitment o Quality Management NABH accreditation consultancy We are continually seeking ways of improving our services to our valued customers in all business processes by expanding our overall service and now with the addition of “Quality Consultancy Service”. We guarantee quality assurance of an organization by ensuring that the structure, processes and outcomes of the organization are commensurate to the needs of the national and international accreditation norms. Our strength is systematic and working approach of which each steps is bounded by a predefined time scheduled time frame systematic working approach with high level of quality outcome. frame. As a result achievement of the accreditation within a guided by Page 1 of 4 To help the clients to achieve Quality Accreditations as a bi‐product of improvements in service quality, KIHC provide following scope of services: Perform initial Assessment of existing policies, standard operating procedures, processes and infrastructure...
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...Research, Singapore Heng Bee Hoon Health Services & Outcomes Research, Singapore Teow Kiok Liang Health Services & Outcomes Research, Singapore Chapter 11 ABSTRACT Outpatient clinics face increasing pressure to handle more appointment requests due to aging and growing population. The increase in workload impacts two critical performance indicators: consultation waiting time and clinic overtime. Consultation waiting time is the physical waiting time a patient spends in the waiting area of the clinic, and clinic overtime is the amount of time the clinic is open beyond its normal opening hours. Long consultation waiting time negatively affects patient safety and satisfaction, while long clinic overtime negatively affects the morale of clinic staff. This chapter analyzes the complexity of an outpatient clinic in a Singapore public hospital, and factors causing long consultation waiting time and clinic overtime. Discrete event simulation and design of experiments are applied to quantify the effects of the factors on consultation waiting time/clinic overtime. Implementation results show significant improvement once those factors are well addressed. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-872-9.ch011 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Reducing Consultation Waiting Time and Overtime in Outpatient Clinic INTRODUCTION An outpatient clinic is a private or public healthcare facility...
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...Singapore – Country Analysis Vineet Khattar; Group Work 9/29/2012 Contents Country Background: .......................................................................................................................... 3 Cultural Aspects of Singapore: ............................................................................................................ 3 Political context................................................................................................................................... 3 Economic policies of Singapore .......................................................................................................... 4 Institutional Framework ..................................................................................................................... 5 Labor Policies of Singapore ................................................................................................................. 7 Objectives of the country: .................................................................................................................. 8 Corresponding Policies Implemented by the Government ................................................................ 8 Performance ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Opportunities, Challenges and Risks......................................................................................................
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...Executive summary This report draws attention to the current remedies used by Raffles Medical Group (RMG) to deal with obesity – standard consultations and surgical treatments – and how they are ineffective as the obesity is still prevalent in Singapore. This report also provides recommendations to improve the existing remedies in RMG to curb adiposity in Singapore. The recommendations are: creating a weight management package and instilling a more empathetic approach in their treatments. The report includes the benefits of these recommendations to RMG. The benefits include allowing RMG to gain a better reputation in Singapore healthcare system, and attracting more obese patients to seek treatment in their hospital thereby leading to increased revenue. Introduction Rising obesity rates have posed a huge problem in Singapore, as obesity brings about severe health detriments. One viable method to prevent obesity is when people manage their weight effectively, through means such as controlling their calories intake and exercising (Goh & Pang, 2012). Such efforts, however, are hindered by the external factors of obesity such as lower prices of unhealthy food (Tomer, n.d). This is further aggravated by the bad behavioral patterns of individuals due to their low endowments of personal and health capital as depicted by Tomer (n.d). According to Tomer, “[Personal capital]…reflects the quality of an individual’s psychological, physical, and spiritual functioning” while...
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...How Fair is Your Healthcare? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live outside of America? Things would certainly be different, but one big aspect would be healthcare. Would it be better somewhere else? Maybe even cheaper? The United States spends so much money towards healthcare, but is it worth it? And could we do anything to make it more efficient? How much would you guess the United States spends on healthcare per person every year? I bet your guess was not over $8,000. The U.S. spends $8,233 on healthcare per person annually. (PBS.org) Our country spends by far more on healthcare than any other country besides Switzerland. (photius.com) This amount is more than two-and-a-half times more than most developed nations spend on healthcare. (PBS.org) But why? Is our healthcare the best in the world? The answer is no. In 2010, the World Healthcare Organization ranked the U.S. at 37, falling fifteen spots behind Columbia and just beating Slovenia and Cuba. (PBS.org) PBS News interviewed Mark Pearson, head of Division on Health Policy at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – an international economic group comprised of 34 member nations. Pearson talks about looking across a broad range of services, medical and surgical. He says the average price in the U.S. is about 85% higher than the average of all other OECD countries. (PBS.org) The average hospital stay in the U.S. costs about $18,000. The countries that came closest to spending as...
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...medical procedures with the biggest potential to spearhead the success of medical tourism in China are Heart Bypass Surgery, Hip Replacement Surgery and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Keywords: Medical Tourism China JCI Contents Page Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is Medical Tourism 1 1.2 Reasons for the popularity of Medical Tourism 2 1.3 Why do patients seek care at medical tourism destinations? 4 1.3.1 Low Cost 4 1.3.2 Avoid Waiting lists 6 1.3.3 Procedure not available in home country 6 1.3.4 Procedures unavailable or restricted by society and/or legal system 7 1.3.5 Tourism and vacations 7 1.3.6 Privacy and Confidentiality 7 Chapter 2 Global Market overview of Medical Tourism Industry 8 2.1 Rise of Asian Medical Tourism demand 9 2.2 Medical Tourism Facilitator / Agents 10 2.3 International Medical Procedures Costing 10 2.4 International Healthcare Arbitrage 12 2.5 Problems pertaining to Medical Tourism 13 Chapter 3 Medical Tourism Decision Model 14 3.1 Choice of International Country Location 15 3.1.1 Economic Conditions 15 3.1.2 Political Climate...
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...Medical Tourism Medical Tourism Introduction Medical tourism is the act of traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental or cosmetic care. Medical tourism is a new term but thousands of years old act. People have been traveling across the continents in search of cures for any imaginable illnesses and making therapeutic trips for health wellness. In ancient Greece, pilgrims and patients came from all over the Mediterranean to the sanctuary of the healing god, Asklepios at Epidaurus, and from the 18th century wealthy Europeans have been traveling to spas from Germany to the Nile. In recent years, medical tourism is becoming more popular with patients seeking treatment for health and well-being purposes abroad. Medical Tourism is also known as Medical Travel, Health Tourism, Surgical Tourism, Health Travel, Treatment Abroad, Surgeries Abroad, and Medical Outsourcing. Medical Tourism Concerns Though many are eager to be the right pieces in the puzzle, many are still struggling to get the right fit. There are a number of concerns and risk factors for patients getting treatment much less seeking them abroad. Some concerns for patients include a consistent quality of care, lack of extensive dialog between the patient and the doctor, lack of post-op follow up, cultural differences and difficulty in obtaining sufficient insurance coverage. In order to mitigate the risk, it’s essential that the patient works with well reputed facilitators. Medical Tourism Accreditation ...
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...misguided attempt prevent panic, the Chinese government failed to inform the World Health Organization of the initial outbreak for nearly four months. Subsequently the virus was contracted by 8098 people between November 2002 and June 2003. 774 of these cases proved fatal worldwide. (Trivedi, 2013) The 3 primary factors that enabled SARS to spread so far and so fast were a lack of early reporting by Chinese officials, lack its high virulence, and international flight paths. Early awareness of SARS was severely by attempts at secrecy within the Chinese government in an attempt to prevent panic. This secrecy delayed awareness reaching both the WHO and healthcare staff, who were unaware of SARS virulence and potency. As mentioned, the SARS outbreak originated in the Guangdong Province in China. SARS was easily spread to healthcare staff who in-turn infected their friends, family, colleagues, and other patients. Also, family members would sick patients, and then transport the virus back out into the community. This scenario played out repeatedly whenever a SARS carrier reached a new population, and was especially destructive in Hong Kong, which had at least two different people import the virus directly from Guangdong. (Tsang & Ho, 2003) One of the chief catalysts for the 2003 outbreak was a doctor from Guangdong Province, who contracted SARS in the...
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...health resorts in North Africa. But in the past seven years or so, the movement has accelerated sharply. It is growing rapidly and turning out to be an immense business opportunity for nations which have the strategic advantage of having resources in terms of medical technology, infrastructure and right human resources. Cross-border travel for health reasons is a $40 billon market and growing at over 15% a year throws up huge opportunities for anyone smart enough to tap it. Broadly defined as a collaboration of medical services with the tourism industry, healthcare tourism offers cost effective medical services for individuals who cannot afford these services in their country due to high costs or to people who are tired by long waiting times. Also patients from countries, where treatment is not available, can avail the benefits of healthcare tourism. Countries that are actively promoting healthcare tourism include Belgium, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Cuba, Costa Rica, Hungary, and Poland. Greece and South Africa are also emerging as new destinations. India is the latest entrant in the field of health tourism. The WTO identified four modes that will help boost trade in health care services worldwide. Medical travel is the most visible face of the increasing global trade in health care services. The other three modes are Cross border delivery of trade The...
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...PROJECT REPORT ON MEDICAL TOURISM WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA Origin and Evolution of Medical Tourism Medical tourism is actually thousands of years old. In ancient Greece, pilgrims and patients came from all over the Mediterranean to the sanctuary of the healing god, Asklepios, at Epidaurus. In Roman Britain, patients took the waters at a shrine at Bath, a practice that continued for 2,000 years. From the 18th century wealthy Europeans travelled to spas from Germany to the Nile. Since the early nineteenth century, when there were no restrictions on travel in Europe, people visited neighboring countries in order to improve their health. At first, mere traveling was considered to be a good therapy for mental and physical well-being. In the 21st century, relatively low-cost jet travel has taken the industry beyond the wealthy and desperate. Later, mostly wealthy people began traveling to tourist destinations like the Swiss lakes, the Alps and special tuberculosis sanatoriums, where professional and often specialized medical care was offered. In this century, however, medical tourism expanded to a much larger scale. Thailand, followed by India, Puerto-Rico, Argentina, Cuba and others quickly became the most popular destinations for medical tourists. Complicated surgeries and dental works, kidney dialysis, organ transplantation and sex changes, topped the list of the most popular procedures. It was estimated that in 2002, six hundred thousand medical tourists came to Bangkok and...
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