Management

health care organisations. Managers whoare familiar with flows of funds in the healthcare sector, who realise how health careorganisations should be run, and who havegood insight into the sometimes complexrelationships between specialists and theirsuperiors. Managers who know how toefficiently organise care processes,supported by the newest informationtechnologies. But above all, we needmanagers who are creative enough and whodare coming up with new ideas in thesecomplex times, and who are well capable ofimplementing these ideas.In the past years iBMG has ventured intoeducating this very type of students, andwith success. Student numbers stronglyincreased over the report period: from 595students in September 2008 to 765 studentsin September 2010. It is gratifying to see thatthis rise is partly due to the higher numberof international students; over 30 in 2010.Moreover, graduated students will enter thelabour market relatively soon. Almost all willhave found jobs in health care within threemonths after graduation.In spite of the strong growth, we managedto sustain the quality of our education.Accreditation of the Dutch Bachelor ofScience in Health Policy & Management andthat of the Master of Science in HealthEconomics, Policy & Law (HEPL) proceededwithout a hitch. Accreditation of the DutchMaster of Science programme in Health CareManagement (Zoma) was postponed oneyear. In anticipation, effective measures havebeen taken to improve the quality of thethesis writing process and an HonoursProgramme was launched.The pass-rate of our programmes hasimproved over the years, although it still33