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Business Handbook for Private Health Providers

This Business Handbook was designed as a tool for providing training to private health providers, such as midwives, nurses and doctors, that operate small clinics and have limited business skills. The business training process as outlined in this Handbook teaches health practitioners to critically examine their businesses. The main objective of the training is to impart basic business and credit management skills to private health practitioners in order to support the on-going development of private practices and to move them towards greater sustainability and profitability. The Handbook covers key elements of business management that will enable clinics to compete favorably in the local market. Areas of focus include record keeping, financial reporting, marketing, business management and credit management.

This course targets private providers operating small health care practices who have limited training in business management and finance. It has been delivered to over 200 private midwives, nurses, doctors, drug shops and clinical officers in Uganda.

This handbook was contributed as a resource for the SHOPS Access to Finance e-Conference held on March 29-30, 2011.