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In the face of rapid change as a response to increasing health needs and financial constraints, healthcare systems and organisations are pressured to adopt innovative and effective tools to manage service delivery. Since its inception in the architectural, engineering and building sectors in the early 1900s, project management has become a systematic management tool with techniques to bring people and resources together for a single purpose (Cleland & Gareis,2006). Its popularity in health and community services has significantly increased in the last decade. Project management has been widely used as an effective management tool to implement change, trialling new service models, developing new programs and technologies, and improving organisational structure and care processes (Dwyer, Liang, Thiessen & Martini, 2013). The inclusion of project management as one of the core competencies for health service managers, public health practitioners and those who may need to be involved in health related projects in some way further proves its importance in health and community service provision. This chapter assists readers to develop understanding of projects and project management, how projects should be planned and implemented, ways of ensuring and measuring project success and, more importantly, how to use project management as a tool to achieve intended outcomes and generate new knowledge for future learning.
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Leading and Managing Health Services: An Australasian perspective
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Cambridge University Press
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