Claudia GUEDES DE ALMEIDA

• Country : PORTUGAL
• rainha75@hotmail.com
• Occupation : Consultant
• EUROPHAMILI Training centre : Rennes - France
• Promotion : 2002

Background

Ana Cláudia Veloso Guedes de Almeida, completed a Law degree at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (October 6 th, 1997), and went on to complete the barristers course under the supervision of Dr Castanheira Neves and worked as Representative of the Ministério Público (district attorney), in Tábua, during approximately one year. She applied last year for the XXX Course of Hospital Administration at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, was accepted and finished its curricular year in July 2001. She also completed The First Certificate in English at the British Council. During September and October, she worked as an hospital manager at Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra under the supervision of Dr. Rosa Reis Marques. She is now in the course of preparing the final paper of the Course of Hospital Administration (to be presented in May and discussed in July), she also works as a solicitor for the Vale das Flores? Agency of Bank Bilbao Vizcaya in Coimbra. She also offers legal advice to a company working on management and financial matters located in Coimbra. Having finished a Post Graduate diploma in Urban and Environmental Law in the Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Direito, she also offers professional opinions on administration and management matters to local government authorities such as the Câmaras Municipais of Bragança, Vimioso and Vila Flor.

Feedback

"Integrating EUROPHAMILI was for me a great opportunity to learn more about the Portuguese system of public health in comparison with other European systems. I also gained maturity and confidence in myself. After EUROPHAMILI, I received propositions of interesting jobs in the field of risk management and health care management. The concrete aspect of the EUROPHAMILI education obviously played an important role."

Publication(s)

Service and site co-operation between private health care centres as possible response to emerging economic and medical issues

Health policy in Europe becomes increasingly concerned with the problem of growing costs of care. A growing perception is that there are more cost-effective methods of hospital care and hospital management than currently provided. During three months, from April to June 2002, we studied the activity and co-operation of Private Associated Clinics (CPA) in Rennes and in the Brittany Region, France. The study was a part of the EUROPHAMILI training programme for health care professionals. We intended to know the organisation of the French hospital care system, the functional organisation of private clinics and to understand the reasons for co-operation between private hospitals. The objective of our study was to make the reference of French experiences to our home countries and to the European Union. The research was based on interviews, bibliographic studies and observations on the field. The co-operation revealed to be related to new medical, economic, marketing, legislative, demographic, strategic and patients’ exigencies. The co-operation between private clinics and the phenomenon of grouping together seems to be a general tendency in all European countries. We discuss the role and the place of private initiatives for public services in the last part of our report.