Subject: Re: Agenda mission November
From: Taavi Lai <[email-masked]>
To: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>
Cc: Audrius Bitinas <[email-masked]>, Natalia GAMGEBELI <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:31:12 +0000

Dear Keti,

Please find attached the other speciality development plans that you 
prioritized.
I'll do majority of the remaining ones too and send these sometime next 
week.

All the best,
Taavi

On 18.03.2020 16:36, Taavi Lai wrote:
> Dear Keti,
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> I'll do as many as I can before Friday and will finish the rest over the 
> weekend or early next week.
> 
> Please find attached 5 dev plans for surgical specialities 
> (anesthesiology, emergency, general surgery, ob/gyn, orthopedics) and 3 
> for internal medicine (cardiology, generic internal, oncology). All 
> these are hospital based services.
> 
> Have a look at these if you have time e.g. whether these seem to be useful.
> 
> Tomorrow I'm going to look for literature on load and staffing criteria 
> as well as hospital/bed numbers per population. With the goal to create 
> a summary suggestion for various levels of hospitals/specialised care
> 
> All the best, taavi
> 
> 
> On 18.03.2020 16:05, Ketevan Goginashvili wrote:
>>
>> Dear Taavi,
>>
>> I hope you are doing well. If you mean hospital selection criteria for 
>> contracting
>>
>> Surgical
>>   - anesthesiology
>>   - emergency medicine
>>   - pediatric surgery
>>   - neurosurgery
>>   - opthalmology
>>   - orthopedics
>>   - ear-nose-ear
>>   - reconstructive surgery
>>   - obstetrics and gynecology
>>   - cardio-surgery
>>   - thoracal surgery
>>   - general surgery
>>   - urology
>>   - vascular surgery
>>
>> Still a long list came out
>>
>> With best regards, keti
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Taavi Lai [mailto:[email-masked]]
>> Sent: 17 March, 2020 16:55
>> To: Ketevan Goginashvili
>> Cc: Audrius Bitinas; Natalia GAMGEBELI
>> Subject: Re: Agenda mission November
>>
>> Dear Ketevan,
>>
>> I heard from Audrius that DM Gabunia approved the proposed task list.
>>
>> I've been extracting and translating (checking google translations to
>> English) the speciality development plans and in some cases the 
>> process is slower than I expected. Given the overall number of the dev 
>> plans
>> (39) it's unlikely that I'll finish all these before Fri.
>>
>> Thus, could you please have a look at the attached list and I'd very 
>> much appreciate if you could tell me which ones I should prioritize 
>> and which ones I can do as we proceed.
>>
>> All the best, taavi
>>
>> PS. do you have a draft I could/should comment?
>>
>> On 16.03.2020 13:30, Taavi Lai wrote:
>>> Dear Ketevan,
>>>
>>> I'm really sorry that I couldn't come to Georgia this time due to the
>>> flight cancellations and lock-downs. I hope you are well and that
>>> Georgia is doing well as well with the COVID-19 situation.
>>>
>>> While I couldn't come in person, I'm still doing the work that we
>>> discussed last time for you - selection criteria of hospitals for
>>> contracting and volumes (beds/staff) per population (by specialities)
>>>
>>> Is this topic still relevant?
>>>
>>> If yes, then please find attached the Estonian Hospital Master Plan
>>> 2015 that I promised last time and I'll try to translate (or summarize
>>> for
>>> you) the master-plan annexes and the speciality development plans I
>>> mentioned. In addition to that, I can do a quick literature search for
>>> examples from other countries for comparison.
>>>
>>> I wrote these tasks into the word file attached and maybe Audrius has
>>> already shared these with you and Tamar Gabunia. Please let me know
>>> whether these tasks make sense to you, whether there's any special
>>> angle I should take. Happy to discuss with you and Deputy Minister
>>> over skype as well.
>>>
>>> Also, if you have a draft document on the hospital selection criteria
>>> or anything else relevant, I'm happy to read and comment.
>>>
>>> All the best, taavi
>>>
>>>