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Facilitating Changes in Health and Social Care

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Facilitating Changes in Health and Social Care

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INTRODUCTIONIn the present scenario, there are several changes that are going on in the health & socialcare sector. This may be due to the change in society’s cultural dynamics or may be due to theadvancements in this sector. It has become important for the organisations to manage theirservices so as to grow in their future (Abu-Rish and et. al., 2012). Change management is aprocess that is done by making a particular strategy. There are several organisations that areoperational in the UK which help people and society in maintaining their health. It is veryimportant that these organisations itself work in a proper way. Royal United Hospital Bath NHSTrust is one such enterprise that provide these kind of services in many regions of England. Thisreport highlights the ways in which these changes have caused, evaluated in longer duration andused critically. It also provides the idea about impact of these changes. It will help to understandthe change factors or drivers as well.TASK 11.1 Key factors that drives changes in the health and social care services.There are numerous factors that drives the change in organisation. These can be internaland external that could cause these alterations in organisations of health & social care. One ofmajor techniques of doing external analysis is to use PEST factor. It is one of the best methods tounderstand this.Political: There are several policies regarding the health and social care that is changedby governments time to time and these changes need to be implemented by organisations.There are certain health and social care regulatory bodies which act as a governmentrepresentative in this sector like NICE which stands for National Institute for Health andClinical and Healthcare Excellence and CQC which stands for Care Quality Commission.CQC checks or say accounts the quality related to firms that are in the business of health& social care (Andrews and et. al., 2013). There are certain regulations posed by thegovernment. In this regard, the most important is Health care act 1999 and health andsocial care act 2001 along with NHS as well as community care act 1990. These are someof the legal structures that start the alterations in health care organisationsEconomical: The economic factors such as funding for health & social care is one of themajor concerns that brings the changes in these organisations. Some of the elements in1
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this regard are taxation and inflation rate. In order to ensure cash flow in theseorganisations, there are several changes made by these organisations. Royal UnitedHealth hospital has to manage its financial resources so as to maintain its budgetrequirement. Social: the societies around the globe is changing and so is the life style. This has bringorganisations to make considerable amount of changes, There are very different kind ofdiseases that are coming up in the society these companies have to make these types ofchanges so as to tackle these epidemics (Antheunis, Tates and Nieboer, 2013).Technologies: There are several kinds of advancements that are going on in thetechnological means in the health and social care organisations. Computerisedmachineries, Robotic arms for operations are some of the technologies that are importantfor these to implement. They have to invest a lot on these so as to provide best qualityservices to its clients.There are certain internal factor that also leads to change in these sectors. They are asfollows:Leadership change: many a times there had been leadership changes that are takingplace in the cited organisation whose decision making leads to changes in theorganisational processes.Process Engineering; There are certain process that are going on in these organisationssuch as the methodologies for treating patientsOther than this there are many other internal factors such as employee’s attitude,organisational structural change like introduction of new departments in the Royal UnitedHospital, new training systems.1.2 Challenges that key factors of changes bring to health and social care services.There are various kinds of challenges that are posed by the factors mentioned above. Allthese factors and its implications needs to be examined. This may consist resistance of theemployees in operating towards the goals and the financial problems related to budget. Otherfactors that may arise in this situations such as time. Budget, problems associated with resourcesallocation. There is large amount of budgets that is allocated for these organisations but many ofthe budgets do not come on the ground as they remain in the development stage due to their ownpolicies (Braveman, Egerter and Williams, 2011). Sometimes, there is case when they do not get2
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