Quality health care in Brunei Darussalam: The growing impact of allied health professions
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2015
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Kumar, S.
Haji, M.S.
Abdullah, S.N.
Han, B.L.
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Brunei International Medical Journal, 2015; 11(4):173-181
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Impact of the allied health contribution towards meeting the demanding shift of high quality health care has increasingly become more evident, more so with the evolving trend of extended scope of practice and advanced specialisation beyond their contemporary practice. Multi- and interdisciplinary networking is indisputably paramount to provide cohesive and greater spread of practice and skills gaps translating to more effective and efficient outcome of patients care. Whilst allied health in developed and neighbouring countries have propelled in formulation of workable strategies, towards escalation of their advancing roles, Brunei Darussalam allied health workforce are no exceptions – albeit undersized ratio to population, taskforce within the Ministry of Health delve into developing sustainable methodological framework and approaches to look into the needs to regulate, train, recruit, retain and form effectual governance in meeting the challenges of demographic and epidemiological change on health care and tech-savvy generation. This paper, an exemplary of such move, collaborates thoughts and evidences on how allied health in partnership with doctors and nurses help to impact the quality framework of health care through six key components - safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and patient-centeredness.
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Copyright 2015 Clinical Research Unit, RIPAS Hospital, Ministry of Health