A hospital that plans only for today rarely survives the pressures of tomorrow — rising costs, tightening regulation, and a healthcare market that keeps getting more competitive. This course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy puts Hospital Business Planning at the centre of that challenge, built for anyone who wants to strengthen their practical skills in planning hospital operations.

Planning of this kind is ultimately a senior-management responsibility that runs through every administrative level and every service department, reaching executive medical and administrative functions as well as scientific committees inside and outside the hospital. Getting quality objectives and overall business planning aligned is essential to fulfilling the hospital's mission — which means building the internal and external environment that supports operations, and implementing sound policies across every facility that delivers care, with senior leaders committing to values that serve beneficiaries, providers, suppliers, and the wider community alike.

Who Should Attend:

• Medical school graduates who want to pursue hospital management.
• Anyone already qualified to manage a hospital or a department within one.
• Health management professionals.
• Interested health practitioners.
• Graduates of health colleges.

How You Will Benefit:

• Understand the strategic planning drivers behind hospital planning, including how quality philosophy factors into it and how it connects to global quality goals.
• See why planning matters for a hospital's continuity and survival in a competitive market.
• Tell the difference between reactive “firefighting” management and genuine business planning built on decentralisation, delegated authority, and prevention rather than reaction.
• Recognise that business planning is a shared responsibility carried by every individual and every division, at every level of the organisation.

Module 1: Why Business Planning Matters in Hospitals

• The practical importance of structured business planning for hospital survival and growth.
• Core objectives that business planning is meant to achieve.

Module 2: The Management Perspective — Accreditation as a Planning Tool

• How accreditation processes fit into the hospital's overall business planning.
• Using accreditation requirements to shape management priorities.

Module 3: The Operational Perspective — Turning Plans into Procedures

• Mechanisms and procedures needed to secure accreditation of hospital services in practice.
• Translating high-level plans into concrete operational steps.

Module 4: The Applied Perspective — Getting Every Department on Board

• How executive, medical, and administrative service departments adopt and own the plan.
• Building cross-department buy-in so planning survives contact with daily operations.