Governance and Management in Healthcare in Australia and New Zealand

Running Head: HEALTH CARE 0
GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE
STUDENT DETAILS

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Governance in Health Care........................................................................................................3
Management in Healthcare........................................................................................................5
Governance in NZ and Australia................................................................................................7
Management in Australia and NZ’s health care.........................................................................8
Comprising of health care system of both the countries............................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
In this study, there will be a discussion about the health care services in New Zealand
and Australia. Governance and management in healthcare is the approach to improve and
maintain the quality of patient care and hospitals. Health care management also referred as
the healthcare administration system. Both countries have three stages for maintaining their
health care administration that are centre or federal government, state government and local
government. Roles and responsibilities of these department is to ensure that all the
professionals are working effectively and they are maintaining proper health care
environment. In Australia, hospital, clinics, pharmacies and alliance health care services are
handled by both public and private enterprises (Vanvactor, 2012). In New Zealand (NZ),
health care services are almost free for people who are the resident of NZ. In this assignment,
there will be discussion about the governance and management of healthcare in Australia and
NZ with specific literature example.

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Governance in Health Care
Governance in the healthcare system alludes to a wide scope of controlling and
principle making related capacities completed by governments/choices producers as they
look to accomplish national wellbeing targets that are helpful for all the patients and citizens
of the nation. Governance is a political procedure that includes adjusting contending impacts
and requests. Governance includes (1) setting vital course and goals. (2) making approaches,
laws, standards, guidelines (3) directing and ensuring that the key objectives are going in
right direction. Governance also maintain the strategic direction of policy development and
implementation. Furthermore, it regulates or govern the behaviour of health care
administration (Bismark & Studdert, 2014)
Governance in administration means working together with different areas which
consists the private segment and public authorities. They work for keeping up the health care
system in a participatory and comprehensive way. When countries received help from
another country for improving health care system, then governance should be done in such a
way which promotes the leadership in hospital and health care institute (Barbazza & Tello,
2014).
In other words, governance in health care implies about the improving efficiency,
effectiveness and responsiveness of the health care system. Thus, Legal authority has the
right to conduct monthly or quarterly survey. It means, government authorities can conduct
the survey of the public or private health care systems (Burgess & Radnor, 2013). In this
survey they consider the cleanliness of the hospitals, behaviour of the staff members, which
method of treatment hospitals are following, etc.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes health care governance as a
“Stewardship”. WHO further categorized healthcare governance into various types that are