PSP-ONE Discuss Private Health Sector

a: There are a few different capacities that are needed: (i) The procurement (or recruitment) of private sector services is a specialized skill but one that can be learned.

Contracting for Health Services

Given the overwhelming interest expressed in learning how to contract for health services, the first online chat will feature one of the world’s premier experts on contracting for health services – Dr. Benjamin Loevinsohn, Lead Public Health Specialist, South Asia Department for Human Development, Health Nutrition and Population Unit, World Bank. This is your opportunity to get answers for any queries you may have about contracting from an expert who combines first-hand practical contracting experience with global knowledge on what contracting strategies have worked well.

Benjamin Loevinsohn

1. What are good and bad contract management practices 2. How can the health sector develop contracts that can be enforced and well monitored particularly in the clinical areas?

Cost effectiveness of contracting versus government provision of services; what are we counting in terms of the total cost of a resource package for basic health services?

Do you think paying for performance is sustainable? If not, what would you suggest to make it such?

For a variety of reasons, many Ministries of Health fall back on the old Memorandum of Understanding concept instead of fleshing out a contract with their private sector partners.

Has anyone been involved in contracting out essential Health Care Services? Could you pelase share with us your experience on service level agreements, lessons and best practices?

How do the contracting-out models tried in Cambodia and Guatemala differ from each other and from those of the African governments that have been contracting with faith-based networks (i.

How do you harmonize the operations and management with the public sector

how does health services contracting improve the quality of lives of those intended?

How is it posible to contract service with out publuc private partnership policy and the scaterd nature of the private sector?

I want to thank all of the participants for their questions. I also want to thank Dr. Loevinsohn for his time and insightful responses.

I worked with a PBF project in Rwanda for a period of about 2 years. And In addition to paying for performance, there are other components to take seriously into account - that quality assurance and capacity building.