Case Management Development

Workforce Development

International Projects

Over the past six years our consulting group has successfully delivered numerous projects with collaborators including the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) among others. The projects have spanned high-spending countries such as Australia and World Bank transitional countries in Europe and Central Asia.

Specialist knowledge

Our team of independent senior healthcare consultants and associates have years of expertise and experience that encompass all areas of healthcare management including:

• Review and redesign of healthcare deliver processes in primary, secondary and tertiary care and dentistry;
• Development of services for the management of chronic disease;
• Human resource development including functional analysis, current capacity review and requirements planning at all levels in healthcare delivery;
• Development of hospital planning models for new hospital developments;
• Strategic reviews of service capacity and future service requirements;
• Extensive experience in benchmarking service and human resource capacity;
• Mapping of current service and human resource capacity.
  
  

Working in transitional countries

Conrane Consulting has extensive experience of working in transitional countries including the Kyrgyz Republic, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Former Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Serbia and Montenegro. Our senior consultants have over 10 years experience in these countries in project areas such as:

• Human resource capacity mapping and benchmarking in all types of medical and support staff;
• Functional analysis of current medical staff and support staff roles;
• Primary healthcare service and human resource capacity mapping and strategy development in rural and urban settings;
• Medical education reform and strategies – both undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous medical education.
  

Recent health sector development work in transitional countries

We have worked successfully on projects for the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) including:

• World Bank: Health sector development loan to Kyrgyzstan
  Preparation and supervisory missions 2000–05 on health system restructuring with particular reference to human resource strategy and rural primary care.
  
  
• SWap project for Kyrgyz Republic
  Project preparation with particular reference to continuous medical education for medical staff, undergraduate and post-grade medical education reform and human resource development.
  
  
• World Bank:Primary care development project for Kyrgyzstan
  Mapping of primary care staffing and activity at Oblast and Rayon level. Review of medical staff functions and strategy development for urban and rural primary care staffing. UK DfID funded technical assistance, 2004/05.
  
  
• Hospital bed model in the Kyrgyz Republic
  Development of model for Bishkek City. 
  
  
• World Bank: Health sector development loan to Republic of Serbia (2003)
  Human resource restructuring strategy for MOH, 2003, including medical staffing (doctors, nurses), capacity mapping and five-year strategy.
  
  
• World Bank: Health sector development loan to the Republic of Serbia (2004)
  Human restructuring strategy for MOH, Republic of Serbia 2004. Review of functions and human resource strategy for support staffing (national and regional levels in all primary and secondary providers).
  
  
• World Bank: Healthcare restructuring in Azerbaijan
  Human resource strategy and second health project formulation, 2004.
  
  
• World Bank: Healthcare HR strategy for Kyrgyzstan
  UK DfID funded Technical Assistance 2002/03.
  
  
• World Bank: Rural primary care in Georgia
  Project preparation, 2002. UK DfID funded.
  
  
• Human resources and mental health service in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan
  Review of development needs, 1999.
  
  
• Human resource strategy to support service restructuring in Poland
  (NHS Overseas) 1995.
  
  

• Health systems integration for Health Leaders Network
  Workshops in Sydney/Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand. 2002/03.
  
  
• Workforce development
  Workshops and conference talks in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. 2001–2004.

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