Health Leadership and Management

Running head: HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1
HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Introduction:
With the growing prevalence of disease, the quality of the patient-centric care is
intensifying throughout the world. To meet the demand of the patient it is crucial to redesign
clinical process which would further facilitate the patient-centric care, sustain the business,
increase patient satisfaction and reduce the global burden of disease. As discussed by Lega,
Prenestini & Rosso, (2017), the process of clinical process redesigning is not new in the industry
but because of complexities, it is recently introduced in the health care system. Although it is a
difficult process to implement in the health care system, with the associate of certain factors it
can be possible to implement and sustainability (Scott et al., 2018). The leadership in health care
and management is highlighted as one of the crucial parts of implementing these reformed
clinical process and sustaining the continuous improvement in health care. The purpose of the
paper is to address an argument with raised in a paper and critically analyze the paper for
providing future implications.
Discussion:
Authors central arguments and conclusions:
In the paper, McGrath et al. (2008) argued that clinical process redesign has allowed the
significant improvement in the delivery of the health care facilities, especially in the emergency
department’s as well as d elective surgery programs. The clinical process redesigning showed
significant improvement in the New South Wales as well as Flinders Medical Centre in South
Australia with noticeable benefits for health care staffs and patient. Apart from the argument, the
researchers also outlined the key standards for effective usage of this clinical process redesign in
implementing and sustaining improvement. The authors also concluded that the clinical process
redesigning hold the potential to sustain improvement.

2
HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
As discussed by Bengtsson (2016), it is one of the crucial features of an evidence based
argumentative paper is clear and concise formation of argument giving a clear understanding of
the relevant issue and supported by range evidence. McGrath et al. (2008) presented the
argument discussed above and also key features of the successfully implementing the clinical
process redesigning which was supported by a range of peer reviewed journals until 2007.
The information and argumentation of paper :
Although McGrath et al. (2008) presented the argument accurately highlighting factors
required for the successful implementation and sustainability of the clinical process redesign, the
information of the appear shows few potential biases. According to Bengtsson (2016), potentials
baizes in the study interrupted the scientific information and distort the measurement process.
McGrath et al. (2008) Highlighted that the key criteria for the successful implementation and
sustainability include leadership by senior executives, focus on the patient journey, clinical
leadership, team-based problem solving, access of data, amorous targets, strong management of
performance , a strong process of improvement. The researcher’s also highlighted suitability of
the process is the most challenging part which depends on the standard of the work involving
individual and teamwork, maintenance of improved standard work by each layer of employment
and a system of improvement through continuous mitigation of the issues. The process owners
are the key player in this case to evaluate each process and criteria discussed above. A regular
meeting with all stakeholders of the health care organization is required to sustain the process
and improves high patient-centered care.
Despite the authors highlighted key criteria, the information bias highlighted in the
paper. The researchers only highlighted the ideal criteria for the successful implementation and