TAMALE TEACHING HOSPITAL

1. TAMALE TEACHING HOSPITAL 2008 PROGRAMME OF WORK PRESENTED AT 2007 HEALTH SUMMIT HELD IN ACCRA

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE • BACKGROUND (MISSION, VISION AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES • STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES FOR 2008 • RESULTS MIX FOR 2008 • RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS FOR 2008

3. MISSION AND VISION • MISSION: To provide quality and affordable secondary and tertiary health car; delivered by well-trained, highly motivated and customer-friendly professional health staff • VISION: To became a fully-established Teaching Hospital and a center of excellence in tertiary health care, medical education and research by 2012

4. CORE VALUES • Professionalism • Innovation • Quality Assurance • Teamwork • Value for money • Good corporate image • Integrity • Collaboration and partnership

5. GENERAL STRATEGIES • To build strong and effective management and support systems and structures • To build capacity towards efficient and effective quality tertiary health care, medical education and research • To improve the quality and quantity of the human resources needed to support quality health car, medical education and research • To improve the overall financial resources of the hospital

6. GENERAL STRATEGIES CONTINUE • To strengthen procurement practices and stores management to achieve value for money • To institutionalize planned preventive maintenance for buildings, equipment and transport • To build effective partnerships and good corporate image • To institutionalize Quality Assurance

7. OBJECTIVES FOR 2008 • Promote individual lifestyles and behavioral models for improving health and vitality • Scale up high impact health, reproductive and nutrition interventions and services • Strengthen health system capacity to expand, manage and sustain high coverage of health service • Promote good governance

8. OBJ. 1: PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL LIFESTYLES AND BEHAVIORAL MODELS FOR IMPROVING HEALTH ACTIVITIES • Conduct daily OPD talks • Weekly health education on local FM stations on personal hygiene, good nutrition and disease prevention • Free health screening for the general public during open week celebration • Quarterly health screening for school children by our dental and eye departments

9. OBJ.1: RESULTS MIX

10. OBJ.2: SCALE UP HIGH IMPACT HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE AND NUTRITION INTERVENTIOS AND SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES • Strengthening emergency preparedness and referrals management • Improve outpatient services and reduce outpatient waiting time • Reduce wound infection rates • Reduce maternal and infant mortality • Prepare adequately for CAN 2008 • Factor in the major rehabilitation

11. OBJ.2: RESULTS MATRIX

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13. OBJ.3: STRENGTHEN HEALTH SYSTEM CAPACITY TO EXPAND MANAGE AND SUSTAIN HIGH COVERAGE OF HEALTH CARE In 2008 conscious effort would be made to improve capacity through training: • sound human resource management • functional quality assurance programme • planned preventive maintenance and • efficient assets management, among others

14. OBJ. 3: RESULTS MATRIX

15. OBJ. 4: PROMOTE GOOD GOVERNANCE, PARTNERSHIPS AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCING HIGHLIGHTS: • Strengthen the management of NHIS claims to ensure prompt, accurate and complete submission and follow up for prompt payments • Intensify monitoring and supervision at all levels • Improve collaboration with all stakeholders • Strengthen procurement practices to achieve value for money • Promote teamwork through regular meetings and durbars

16. OBJ.4: RESULTS MATRIX

17. RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS (FINANCIAL AVAILABILITY BY SOURCE – IN NEW GHANA CEDIS)

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