The challenge of change : putting patients before providers / Brendan Drumm.

Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index.

Introduction: The transformation programme--Why integrated healthcare--Management of the health service up to 2005--The decision to extablish the Health Service Executive--Establishing the new organisation--The early days of the HSE--The 3,000 Bed plan--Hospital reconfiguration--Reconfiguring the childrens hospitals--Primary care teams: An essentail building block of integrated care--A new consultant contract--Clinical Leadership--Reducing the cost of medication in Ireland--Introducing performance management-the design of healthstar--Integrated service areas-A structure to manage integrated care--Managing a Health Service in a public sector environment--Governance in Ireland and its effect on healthcare--Conclusion.