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Tim OSullivan

Position: Senior Specialist
Email: tosullivan@ipa.ie

Key work has been as director of various accredited IPA educational programmes in healthcare management. Following his MA in Health Services Studies at the University of Leeds, developed in the 1980s the health care option on the IPA’s BA in Healthcare Management. More recently, has been director of the IPA’s NUI-accredited MA in Healthcare Management (Year 2) and of the NUI - accredited Certificate in Health Services as well as of the IPA's new Diploma in Health Services Policy.

Has had substantial experience of undertaking research and evaluation projects related to the health sector in Ireland and has also worked on international projects with colleagues in other countries.

Examples of topics covered include: Criteria for Professional Regulation (2004), Regulation of Practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, (2002), International Trends in Healthcare Structures (2001), The Impact of Market Forces on EU healthcare systems (2000), Health Provision in the EU (1997) Continuing Education Needs of Nursing (1996-1997) and Public Health Nursing Services (1995).

Clients have included the Department of Health and Children, the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the European Health Management Association/European Commission and An Bord Altranais as well as healthcare professional associations.

In the 1990s, edited a series of publications on behalf of the regional health boards: Health Services News, the Health Factsheets and policy discussion papers. He is co-author of a 2002 book, Current Issues in Healthcare Management: A Comparative Review.

Lectures regularly on IPA under-graduate and post-graduate programmes on Irish and International Health Policy and on Structural Reform in the Health Services.

Selected Publications

  1. 2005: ‘Arguments for voluntary action’, Administration, Vol. 53, No.1 2005, pp. 38-53 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration)
  2. 2003: ‘Consumerism in the health services’, 1996-2003: Administration, Vol. 51, No.1-2 2003, pp. 219-230
  3. 2002: (With Butler, M) Current Issues in Irish Health Management. A Comparative Review, Dublin: IPA, (including chapters on ‘The Public- Private Mix in Ireland’ and on ‘The Voluntary Sector in the Health Services’)
  4. 2000: ‘Learning by Comparing in the Health Services’, Administration, 48/2, pp. 43-56
  5. 1999: (With Rathwell T et al), ‘Looking over the horizon: an Internet-based international course in healthcare management’, J Health Adm Educ. 1999 Summer; 17(3):159-73.
  6. 1998: Chapter on ‘Changing Relationships and the Voluntary and Statutory Sectors’, in McAuliffe, E. and Joyce, L. (eds), A Healthier Future? Managing Healthcare in Ireland, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration
  7. 1994: ‘The Voluntary-Statutory Relationship in the Health Services’, Administration, vol. 42, 1, 3-24 (Spring 1994)

Selected Research/Consultancy Reports

  1. 2004: Report on Some Issues in Professional Regulation, report for Irish Department of Health and Children, September 2004
  2. 2002: Report on the Regulation of Practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Ireland, report for Irish Department of Health and Children (DOHC), Dublin: DOHC
  3. 2001: Literature Review for Department of Health and Children on International Health Care Structures
  4. 2000: Irish contributor to EU-funded international research: Paton, C. (2000) The Impact of Market Forces on Health Systems, Research report of European Health Management Association (EHMA), Dublin: EHMA
  5. 2000: Writer (for ERHA Committee chaired by Mr Pat Moloney) of a report on Dual Diagnosis Services (for persons with an intellectual disability and a psychiatric diagnosis) in the Eastern Regional Health Authority.
  6. 1997: Contribution of Irish data to Free Movement project, a report on health provision in the EU published by EHMA.
  7. 1997 Contributing writer to An Bord Altranais document, Continuing Professional Education for Nurses in Ireland: A Framework.
  8. 1996 Co-author with Richard Boyle, Continuing Education Needs of Nurses, A Research Report for An Bord Altranais.
  9. 1995: A Service without Walls, Report for National Committee on community nursing in Ireland, Galway: National Public Health Nursing Committee
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