Facilitating Change in Health and Social Care: A Comprehensive Analysis

FACILITATING CHANGE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

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INTRODUCTION
Change can be defined as the process of transformation of the current situation to desire
conditions in order to gain success. It boosted the opportunities within the health and social
care sectors that renders a better treatment or provides quality services to the users
accordingly. It is based on the modification that sometimes affects the strategies and working
conditions. In this assignment, various changes factors will be discussed that describes
principles of change management within the health care. The health and social care sector
continually imperilled by several changing factors on the basis of political, legal, organizational,
social, cultural and technological. The major aim of this assignment is to give an insight to the
people for adopting changes and evaluates the overall benefits of these change management
within health and social care sector.
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TASK 1- ESSAY
INTRODUCTION-
In this task, different drivers of change management will be discussed that can affect the
strategies and working conditions of the people. Change is the modification procedure that
focuses on the growth and development as well as improves the quality of services accordingly.
The information regarding changes will be discussed with the help of PEST analysis that can
render information to these mentioned factors accordingly. Further, the challenges will be
assessed that and bring the changes within healthcare organizations.
1.1- EXPLAIN THE KEY FACTORS THAT DRIVE CHANGE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE SERVICES
An organizational change can affect the overall aspects of working conditions and functioning of
the healthcare sector. An organizational change can be represented by the factors of
transforming new ideology in order to gain desired future conditions. It is important to adapt
the change management that should be the proper response to the external factors towards
further development (Aveyard, 2014). There are majorly two kinds of business organization; in
which changes have been taking place such as the internal or external environment. The
internal environment includes organizational structure, events, functions, people and the inside
conditions that can influence the decision-making practices, the behaviour of employees and
the culture as well. On the other hand, external environment comprises of the outside factors
including customers, competition, economic changes, technical, political and legal environment
and the social changes; which influences the functionality (Blank, et al. 2017).
Several of the factors are described below that drive changes in the health and social care
sector-
Political and legal factor: it is one of the major factors that can influence the functions and
operational services of an organization. As it improves the quality of services and gives various
opportunities to the organization. Several laws and regulations have been formulated by the
government and other regulatory bodies in order to the betterment of the services and
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