Hamad Medical Corporation has evolved over the past few decades into a major provider of acute and continuing care services. Like many successful hospital providers internationally, this growth has produced a number of challenges that require a coordinated approach to a complex change agenda that now faces the organization. The rapidly growing population in Qatar directly correlates with an increase in the pediatric patient population. This will result in considerable pressure on the country’s current services and facilities.
The CSRP is a mechanism to bring together and manage a large number of changes planned to take place between now and 2016. These changes include the opening of the three new Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City hospitals and deciding how best to use Women’s Hospital, once it is vacated. The changes also include steps to relieve service pressures at Hamad General Hospital (HGH) and Women’s Hospital by optimizing usage of services at the general hospitals in Al Wakra, Al Khor and Dukhan. The CSRP will bring together many of the initiatives and projects that already exist and offer a structure through which they can be implemented in a coordinated and connected way across the corporation with a goal of one Women’s and Children’s Clinical Network for the country.
The CSRP will:
• Enhance the skill and knowledge of the clinical staff with the support and experience of senior managers
• Streamline and optimize the location of services and the way in which the delivery of those services is designed
To achieve this, the program is based on clinically-driven workstreams, led by a senior clinician, a managerial lead and a nursing lead who together will collaborate with clinical and operational teams to develop clinical programs. There are 14 workstreams under the Clinical Services Reconfiguration Program. One of these is the Children’s Workstream, which is led by the Office of Corporate Child Health Planning Project Team. The graphic below clearly demonstrates the CSRP structure, as well as the areas of focus of the Children’s Workstream.
The objectives of the Children’s Workstream are:
• To plan and develop the scope of service for pediatric programs that will remain at HMC, post Sidra opening
• To work with the HMC/Sidra Joint Affiliation Office to ensure the appropriate, safe and effective transition of programs
• To continue to improve the quality of children's services at HMC
• To unify services being offered at multiple facilities, based on the concept of ‘One Program, Multiple Sites’.
• To continue to develop pediatric expertise across all professional disciplines through education and clinical mentorship
The following sections showcase some of the great work being carried out by the pediatric clinical teams at HMC supported by the Children’s Workstream/SickKids Partnership.
