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Bahrain Role of contractual arrangements in improving health system performance
INTRODUCTION
This study was conducted as part of an initiative by the WHO Regional Office
for the Eastern Mediterranean to assess the role of contractual arrangements in
improving health sector performance in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean
Region. The scope of this initiative is to undertake exploratory case studies to
document experience with outsourcing of publicly financed health services to private
sector organization in those countries of the region that have a large private and/or
nongovernmental organizations sector, and to assist in developing a regional strategy
on public private partnership in health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The
specific objectives are: to assess the overall capacity for contracting out health
services to private sector in the country; to assess a project/programme in health that
had taken up contractual arrangement as an implementation modality; to organize a
national meeting of the concerned stakeholders on contractual arrangements for
improving the performance of the health sector and present the finding of the study;
and to participate in a regional meeting on the subject to present the findings of the
study.
METHODOLOGY
After an extensive review of the literature, two data collection tools were
designed to facilitate assessment (one for overall country capacity, and the other for
contract/agreement case study). The information was gathered by the following
approaches:
Extensive review of available reliable documents, including:
Related legislative decrees.
Tender Central Board rules and regulations.
Civil Service Bureau rules and regulations.
Ministry of Finance and National Economy rules and regulations.
Ministry of Health rules and regulations.
Contracts/agreements and related reports.
Consultants reports (KPMG, International Monetary Fund and Arthur Anderson).
King Hamad General Hospital Committee documents on Future privatization
options and issues.
Australian Hospital Design Group reports.
Meeting with concerned officials in the Ministry of Health Headquarter, Directorate of
Finance, Directorate of Medical Equipment, Directorate of Services and Salmania
Medical Complex.
Meeting with concerned managers in private sectors (private hospitals and private
companies).
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