The Future of Healthcare Organizations
A rigorous, practical course to understand, anticipate and lead the reforms the health system needs.
100% Onlife* method · 15 Sep – 6 Nov 2026
Transform the way you understand the health system.
You learn from Manel del Castillo, who for two decades led the transformation of Hospital Sant Joan de Déu —one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world— and shares here his vision of the healthcare that is coming.
This is not theory about the sector: it is the experience of someone who has been at the helm, turned into a roadmap to read the major challenges and turn them into opportunities.
- Analyze how the system's actors evolve: patients, professionals and administrations.
- Identify the most pressing challenges facing European health systems.
- Manage with equity, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Understand the Sant Joan de Déu case as an internationally recognized transformation.
- Apply practical micro-management tools from day one.
- Lead reforms with real impact and a deeply human approach.
Four modules that move from a broad view of the system to the living case of a leading hospital, and from there to tools you apply in your own organization.
The current state of the health system
Great strengths and growing weaknesses: a challenge of social and economic sustainability that demands deep reforms.
The major challenges facing each actor
- Patients: the challenge of demand.
- Professionals: the challenge of supply.
- Administration and funding: the challenge of economic sustainability.
Pending transformations
- Macro-management: equity and real coverage.
- Meso-management: efficiency, organization and incentives.
- Micro-management: effectiveness driven by purpose and innovation.
The hospital's evolution (2003–2023)
Internationalization, research and innovation to face the challenges of viability, identity and sustainability.
Results of the transformation
- Scientific, clinical and organizational progress, with high satisfaction among patients and professionals.
- Projects such as the Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona or the ÚNICAS network: science and humanism.
The challenge of identity
Giraffe Culture: the 7 Cs (Cause, Capacity, Compassion, Knowledge, Commitment, Collaboration and Change). Leadership grounded in purpose, trust and shared responsibility.
An inspiring example
You can transform a healthcare organization without giving up its essential values.
Two days at the heart of the hospital to see how innovation, humanism and excellence take shape in a real management model: from the transformation and innovation model to the voice of the patient, Value Based Healthcare, digital transformation, HR and culture, with visits to the PICU, the surgical block, the Còrtex Clinical Command Center and the Pediatric Cancer Center.
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Nadie crece solo.
This programme is experienced inside the Club INUSUAL, a community of practice with a private space where healthcare executives and professionals learn together: a community of collective learning.
The live sessions with Manel del Castillo are not lectures: they are collective learning that reinforces the Onlife* method —online, experiential and at your own pace, but never on your own.
Discover the Club INUSUAL →- Tuesday 22 September · 5–6 pm
- Tuesday 29 September · 5–6 pm
- Tuesday 6 October · 5–6 pm
- Tuesday 13 October · 5–6 pm
Open masterclass with Xavier Marcet and Manel del Castillo · Tuesday 20 October, 7–8 pm
Two days at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona to experience a benchmark management model up close.
A 100% Onlife* method: learn at your own pace, apply from day one.
- 100% Onlife*Format
- 7 weeksDuration
- 2 h / weekDedication
- +40 videosContent
- 4Live sessions
- 35Downloads
- BlockchainCertificate
- SpanishLanguage
Platform at your own pace
Access all content with no time limit, whenever and wherever you want.
Live sessions
At the end of each block you connect live with Manel to resolve questions; they are recorded.
Downloadable material
Frameworks, readings and tools you can apply to your professional day-to-day.
From the classroom to practice
The in-person day at Sant Joan de Déu closes the journey.
Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona
Passeig Sant Joan de Déu 2
08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona
Accreditation has been requested from the Consell Català de Formació Continuada de les Professions Sanitàries — the Continuing Education Commission of the Spanish National Health System.
The healthcare that is coming cannot be led the way today's is. It is led with strategy and with humanity.
Manel del Castillo
Secretary General of Hospitality Europe · President of CAIROSOne of the most influential healthcare executives in Spain and a key figure in the transformation of the system. For two decades he led Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona, establishing it as an international benchmark in highly complex care, research and innovation, with more humane, innovative and sustainable management.
A driving force behind the ÚNICAS project, he now chairs CAIROS (the Committee for Evaluation, Innovation and Operational Reform of the Health System) and combines management with teaching and the dissemination of knowledge in academic and professional forums.
Full course
The complete online journey: content, live sessions and certificate.
- Both online modules (+40 videos)
- 4 live sessions with Manel del Castillo
- Open masterclass with Xavier Marcet
- 35 downloads and practical resources
- Blockchain certificate
+ In-person day
Extend the course with the two immersive days at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
- 2 in-person days at Sant Joan de Déu
- Agenda with the hospital's management team
- Visit to the PICU, surgical block and Còrtex
- Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona
You lead or manage in healthcare
You're looking for fresh perspectives, inspiration and practical tools to drive reforms with real impact and a human approach.
You aspire to greater responsibility
You want to consolidate your career, broaden your view of the system and get ahead of the challenges to come.
You design corporate programmes
You need strategic content that fits into leadership, innovation and transformation development plans.
I've met many healthcare executives, but few combine strategy and humanity the way Manel del Castillo does. His leadership is measured in the trust he inspires and the serenity with which he accompanies his teams.
Throughout his career, Manel del Castillo has shown a continuous commitment to adapting the health system to society's new realities.
Dr. Josep TaberneroDirector of the Vall d’Hebron Institute of OncologyA complete executive: visionary, planner and manager of talent, results-oriented and with an admirable touch in relationships.
Adrià ComellaHealthcare sector executiveHealth systems need a deep transformation to meet society's current needs. This course tackles it with leadership and creativity.
Jordi MitjàExecutiveOnlife* blends learning into your real life: online and experiential, at your own pace and with open-ended access. You move forward when it suits you and join the live sessions you choose; all of them are recorded.
It's up to you. The content is available 24/7 and the live sessions are recorded, so you can organize yourself freely and watch them on demand if you can't attend.
Yes — a blockchain-verifiable certificate when you complete the programme.
Yes. Besides paying online, you can reserve by bank transfer: write to us and we'll handle it.
The next step
Reserve your place in the 3rd edition or tell us about your case.
From 15 September to 6 November 2026. Limited places. If you have questions about the format or the in-person day, let's talk with no commitment.