This seminar will take place on December 5 at 15:00. The seminar will be in a hybrid format with:
- in-person session in the IST Alameda Campus, Department of Engineering and Management's Meeting Room
- online, via Zoom https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98325990970?pwd=szlgueIYoQ4FGhmlCXcSbyMuokG3RS.1
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Summary
Portugal's public health system faces challenges due to rising healthcare costs, leading to the creation of public-private partnership (PPP) models. The first wave of PPPs linked hospital infrastructure building and administration with clinical service delivery. This work starts by presenting some evidence about their performance compared with State-managed hospitals, in terms of efficiency, care appropriateness, patient safety, and access. Results show that PPP hospitals did not evidence performance levels below their counterparts. However, the public sector's incapacity to handle complex projects and contracts has led to delays, miscalculated costs, and external advice on contract monitoring. To address this, Portugal is now seeking to establish a second wave of hospital PPPs. This work's second part suggests Portugal's first strategic management method for managing healthcare PPPs, examining the Portuguese legal framework and combining the expertise of national PPP specialists. The strategic formulation should fill knowledge gaps, increase collaboration and accountability with the private sector, and examine methods for contract management, renegotiation, and value-for-money evaluations.
Speaker's bio
Diogo Cunha Ferreira is an Associate Professor with Tenure at the Department of Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Socio-Economic Planning Sciences and a Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Ecological Indicators. Since 2016, he has published 60+ peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, mostly related to healthcare and health systems, local government, and public services, and more recently, the environment. He is a former integrated researcher at CERIS, being now a member of CEGIST.