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Level 7 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Business Plan Evaluation and Strategic Recommendations

HSC704 · Health and Social Care Strategies and Policies — Week 9 of 16

CourseHSC704
Week9 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Business Plan Evaluation and Strategic Recommendations

  1. Balanced Scorecard and healthcare KPI design
  2. Sensitivity analysis and contingency planning
  3. Continuous quality improvement frameworks
  4. Strategic recommendations for executive sign-off
  5. Lecture 46- Markov modelling and Sensitivity analysis in Healthcare
  6. Quality Improvement and Service Improvement Projects for Nurses

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Evaluate the business plan, making recommendations for improvement.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate the business plan, making recommendations for improvement.

Study materials

Videos

  • Lecture 46- Markov modelling and Sensitivity analysis in Healthcare · YouTube · IIT Roorkee July 2018 · 22 min · for registered students
  • Quality Improvement and Service Improvement Projects for Nurses · YouTube · Carol Forde-Johnston · 33 min · for registered students
  • How to Build the Business Case for Quality Improvement · YouTube · Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IHI · 3 min · for registered students
  • Quality improvement in practice: lessons from mental health · YouTube · The King's Fund · 6 min · for registered students
  • The difference between research, quality improvement, service evaluation and audit in healthcare · YouTube · Carol Forde-Johnston · 12 min · for registered students
  • Service Evaluation in healthcare explained using practice examples · YouTube · Carol Forde-Johnston · 17 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial Accounting, ch. 12: Balanced Scorecard and Other Performance Measures · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 565–604 · for registered students
  • CQC: Assessment framework (quality statements) · Reading · Other, guidance · for registered students
  • Managerial Accounting, ch. 13: How Do Managers Use Financial and Nonfinancial Performance Measures? · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 883–972 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Global Health Challenges and Policy Formation
  • Week 2: Healthcare Financing and National Policy Evaluation
  • Week 3: International Crisis Responses and Healthcare Policy Soluti…
  • Week 4: Strategic Environmental Scanning in Healthcare
  • Week 5: Competitive Positioning and Strategic Formulation
  • Week 6: Strategic Choice and Implementation Planning
  • Week 7: Healthcare Business Plan Development
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Business Plan Evaluation and Strategic Recommendations
  • Week 10: Socio-Political Context of Health Promotion
  • Week 11: Evaluating Campaigns and Demand Management
  • Week 12: Applying Health and Social Care Strategies and Policies in …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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