NRI Survey on: Cooperation between universities and university hospitals On behalf of NRI: Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen Director of Research Aalborg University.

NRI Survey on: Cooperation between universities and university hospitalsOn behalf of NRI: Lars Hvilsted RasmussenDirector of Research Aalborg University Hospital, Head of Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University

• Respondents: – Nordic medical faculty deans and university hospital directors– 44 % replies – Replies are almost equal in all the Nordic countries

• Position:– 40% Medical faculty deans– 40% University hospital directors– 20% Regional hospital leaders

• Institution groups:– 40% Medical faculties– 45% University hospitals– 15% Regional health authorities

The survey

• Physically:– Few are fully integrated– More than half are moderately integrated

Integration between universities and university hospitals?

• Administration:– 75 % have a low degree of administrative integration

Integration between universities and university hospitals?

• Finance:– 90 % have little or no financial integration

Integration between universities and university hospitals?

• Management:– 45 % representatives from the university in the board

of the university hospital

– 60 % representatives from the university hospital in the board of the university

Integration between universities and university hospitals?

Information

• Informal information is regarded as most important

• Half of the respondents feel that they are poorly informed about their collaborating institution

Important factors to optimize the relationship between the faculty/hospital

Cooperation – status and importance

1

Does

not work / n

ot importa

nt 2 3 4 5

6

Works

very w

ell / h

ighly

importa

nt 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

0% 0%

19%

30%

48%

4%

0% 0%

4%

7%

44% 44%

How well the respondents feel that the cooperation between the fac-ulty/hospital worksHow important the respondents feel that the cooperation is for their faculty/hospital to fulfil its intitu-tional obligations

Summary of the survey

• Management– 60% University Hospital representation in faculty

boards – 45% University Faculty representation in hospital

boards

Summary of the survey

• Cooperation – between university hospitals and medical faculties is very

important

– More than 90% evaluates that cooperation is crucial

– Only half considers it to function optimal

– Interest for improvement

Summary of the survey

• Common strategies is important and needed

Summary of the survey

• Physical integration is important• There is an interest in further physical

integration

Summary of the survey

• Informal and formal meetings between university hospitals and medical faculties is important

• Informal more important than formal

My conclusion

• Collaboration between university hospitals and medical faculties in the Nordic countries is evaluated by deans and directors to be very important

• The Deans and Directors Meeting could be a forum for further improvement