SWOT Analysis of Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare
Environment

Executive summary
Contents
Title page.........................................................................................................................................1
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................1
Main body........................................................................................................................................2
SWOT..........................................................................................................................................2
SWOT Analysis of Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust..........................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Recommendations............................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
The report revolves around king's College hospital NHS foundation trust Denmark hill,
situated in London. It gives an overview of internal factors that accumulates together in order to
determine the overall efficiency in the organization’s operation. The report takes the approach of
SWOT analysis in order to determine strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that might
originate from within the organization in influence the overall efficiency of various operations
that synchronizers together in order to move organization towards his overall objectives. The
basic strength of the organization is the organization’s ability to maintain the morality of patients
using summary hospital level mortality indicator. The biggest organizational weakness is there
an ability to improve patient access to standardize facilities in the case of emergency.
Main body
SWOT
Swot analysis is structured research on the inner environment of an organization. The
acronym stands for Strengths, weakness, opportunity and threats. The analysis helps an
organization to study their reluctant performance and prepare for the future possibilities. A
strategy is prepared for inner accumulation after the analysis is performed and successfully cross
checked with the present performance.
SWOT Analysis of Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Year 2019-2020
Strengths
 The hospital proved excellent in
maintaining the mortality of patients
using Summary Hospital-level
Mortality Indicator (SMHI).
 Providing the employees with
psychologist to reduce stress and work
efficiently.
Weaknesses
 Not able to deliver constant patient
health results.
 Unable to improve patient’s access to
standardized facility in emergency,
elective, cancer and diagnostics.
 The trust has capital constraints
making it difficult to improvise the

 Hardworking workforce that was able
to help COVID patients in the crisis
with a successful discharge rate of 163
patients out of 417.
 The trust built CCU and ICT
infrastructure and upgrade the
available machinery he/lp.
 The trust performed well in VTE
assessment risk by exceeding the
target with 2.8%.
care facilities.
 The supply that the trust depends
upon is based on dynamic factors and
fluctuates aggressively.
 The waste management failed leading
to a hike of 2% in the waste
production.
Opportunities
 Meeting the standards of emergency
care for the patients.
 Achieving the 99% target by engaging
more with the local people.
 The trust has opportunity to become
absolute sustainable by reduction in
emission of Greenhouse gas.
 There is opportunity for the attraction
of funds by increasing equity through
reduction in wastage of water.
 Reduced marketing costs and more
customers with the customer
interaction oriented policies.
Threats
 Sixth largest waiting list in England.
 Extreme deficit in the recent years of
working.
 There can be disputes with the UK
government regarding the
continuation of the working because
of lack of effective waste
management.
 Reduced success rates of the
operations
 Potential threat to the funds and
customer information because of
various alliances and inefficient cyber
security.
Strengths