Health Care Environment: SWOT Analysis of St. George University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

This report provides a SWOT analysis of St. George University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the context of the health care environment. It highlights the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by the trust. The analysis is based on the trust's annual report and focuses on areas such as workforce, technology, patient satisfaction, and performance. The report also includes a PEST analysis to assess the macro environment factors affecting the trust.

Health Care
Environment

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In this following report, the information is related wit health environment in which
findings related towards National Health service. There are two topic allotted in which one need
to opt for scrutinise information related to SWOT analysis effectively. According to the
information which are highlights about local CCG and JSNA report along with five research
findings to covered in SWOT table. As the topic is consider about ST. George University
Foundation NHS foundation trust. Thus the overall information is considered on the basis of
Annual Report in proper executive manner.

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Swot Analysis:........................................................................................................................4
PEST Analysis........................................................................................................................9
Challenges for the National Heath Service after five years ................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
The health care environment is always major concern towards in the field of medical
services. It is required to undertaken into consideration when it comes to society health. To
maintain healthy environment health care system are providing extra services on the basis of
patient feel weather and fresh(Al Khamisi, Khan and Munive-Hernandez, 2019). Within a
healthy work environment is one of that is safe empowering and satisfying. Parallel in the world
health organisation that having definition to becomes perceived threats. In health care system is
having culture that depicts about safety is paramount, in which all leaders, managers, health care
workers which is staff responsibility that enhance sense of professionalism accountability,
transparency, involvement, efficiency and effectiveness (Grainger, Stevens and Humphreys,
2019). In this report, the organisation is consider National Heath Service situated in United
Kingdom. St. George Hospital s teaching Hospital in Tooting, London. It was founded 1733, one
of the large teaching hospital and having one of largest hospital in overall Europe. The hospital is
having around 1300 bed and most tertiary such as accident and emergency, maternity service and
care of old age people and children. The University Hospital also offers about specialists
includes trauma, neurology, cardiac care stroke. The topics are covering about St George
Hospital creates annual report in that some of areas that allows threats and opportunities. Every
source of research contains two research. Further it include 5 strength and 5 weakness that would
reflect about National Health Service long term plan.
MAIN BODY.
The research topic On National Health Service is consider about St George University Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust.
Swot Analysis:
It is an analysation that enhance some framework describe about strategic planning,
technique which is used to help person or organisation for evaluate their strength, weakness,
opportunities and threats that related to the business competition or having enough project
planning (Strategic management of NHS, 2019).
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
 National Health Service is not having  They are unbale to cope with the
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monopoly, in which competitors are not
real for National Health Services. In
private hospital are available
throughout within United Kingdom, in
case of accident and Emergency service
enhance unique type of services. The
fact that there is continual monitoring
of waiting lists a proof that is demand
outstrips supply effectively. At the time
of establishment has been structure
since 1948 and continues to grow and
expand upon its service.
 According to St George Hospitals
National hospital service foundation
trusts(2020) annual report the latest
rating of surgery service was rated good
through CQC. Through this it
recommended about removed from
quality special measures.
 On the basis of claimed by St George
Hospital in National Health Service
foundation trust (Nikolaou, 2020)
(Gomes, Dantas and Plentz, 2018). The
Staff annual report is one of most
valuable assets. It was accomplished
through investing and supporting staff.
 For having Trust in partnership with St.
George University of London, is
leading the country about urgent public
health studies into drastic situation such
as Covid- 19 .
demand due to the increasing
population. There is a possibility the
management of the linkages of the
chain as per the resource’s analysis.
 To maintained annual report the trust is
being fragile information technology
infrastructure. In National Health
Service CQC is highlighted about to
improvement such as vacancy, sickness
and turnover rates to staffs (Tewari and
Gupta, 2020). It undertakes further
steps to addresses bullying and
harassment and improve equality and
diversity, and some sort of negative
practises like harassment and other
sickness . There is trust improvement
need in performance and having
number of patients which is being seen
treated as in order to admitted and
discharge within four hours of visiting
emergency department is below
national target.
 As per the annual report 2020. Number
of patience waiting more than 18 weeks
for better treatment below national
target.
 For the review of independent panel of
medical professional and experienced
surgeons they have that patients were
deficient in care and for 67 patients
care failings likely to contribute for
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The opened of 2018 Energy centre
where it was possible to save money
carbon dioxide emission.
 For St George University Hospital,
their workforce are more essential
assets and it is more consistently seen
as such by public and wider
stakeholder. Towards delivering this
objectives that refers about investing
towards support staff by provide
training and development practise. As
both workforce and education part is
essential and team of St George implies
Strategies and further they set out the
empowered workforce in both modern
and flexible which having some values
and creativity.
death.
 NHS is third poorest performance that
compared with 18 developed countries
on the overall rate of people die when
successful medical care would care
have save their lives. Apart from it
there is less flexibility in NHS working
hours as well as high level of
accountability creates different enhance
of challenges.
OPPORTTUNITY THREATS
 To the use of marketing strategies for
raising on profile of the National
Health Services. Furthermore, it having
probability to increase the investment
criteria.
 As per the good corporation with other
hospital with primary and community
cares give opportunity to make greater
assort of technology and expand on the
basis of services for patience manner
(Gray and Orton, 2019).
 The main role of trust playing is an
increasing role in clinical research work
 The image of the National Health
Service that being affected by the work
of contractors.
 There is increasing of employee
turnover.
 On current situation the biggest threat
is COVID situation in where overall
crises are spreading on the basis of
health and other factor that effect
towards staff retention (Garrison and
Dilger, 2020). Such as National Health
Services facing issues related for
stabalise Staff that creates more
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through collaboration with St George
University of London effectively.
 In National Health Services there is
better personal and professional
development hubs.
 The hubs of NHS are also presuming
many projects such as skill clubs, better
recruitment and engagement events,
insights weeks for 14-15 years of old,
work experience, internship and health
related employability.
challenges towards management of
NHS.
 The effect of COVID is in global
platform through that in coming months
and even in years that March and April
2020 the result of pandemic situation
patients waiting of treatment increased
sufficient.
 For National Health care services they
are not proper evolving healthcare
needs. Through which the increasing of
obesity and diabetes or antibiotic
resistance.
Justification of SWOT Analysis:
Strength:
As per above Strength on St George University Hospital focuses overall service to allot
by National health Service. This company serve only overall United Kingdom region in which it
generally promotes trust to funding health care Universities. National health Service enhance to
provide their quality if health care services and they are more influence in health care sector (Ali
and Mahmoud, 2019). As they have quit better workforce team and along with enough scope of
technology where NHS team can assort effectively. In St George Hospital is regulates on NHS
trust and as per annual report, CQC praised about NHS’s Staff for their excellence health care
services provide to patients. On the basis of CQC rating by children and youth people were
satisfied through the services which being made by National Health Service. Because, NHS use
to provide their health care service towards only which they have focused for longer period of
time.
For St. George University their Staffs are more powerful assets for them because their
health service are counted on their experienced and they concerned towards education and
workforce that turns out to be flexible enough (Park and Lee, 2018). The Trust in partnership
with St. George University of London that leading towards country for urgent public services
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that enhance for better services. As the National Health Service is more influence in United
Kingdom region with their health care services as well as many ties with health institution such
as St. George institute in which they provide education to medical student along with assort
advanced technologies to make use towards interns, student and doctors for quality of treatment.
National Health service is also known as better Cancer treatment to provide patients.
Weakness:
At the tine of analysing of weakness about St. George University Hospital, where major
issues generate during to not coordinate in better way, when demand of health service more but
they could not serve on perspective of higher population. Similarly, in the situation of COVID,
doctors and staffs of NHS team not able to generates service for their patients that was creates an
massive circumstances for them. To maintained the Annual report, there is some drawback
which came out as highlight that improvement towards such vacancy, sickness and staff turnover
rates. By nit having proper consistency and sustained as well as improvement in performance
that we need. It includes emergency care with only 83.2% of patients being seen, treated and
either admitted or discharge with four hours (Reiter and Song, 2018).
By staff commence their hard work that reduce the number of patients waiting more than
18 weeks for treatment and one year end position is 84.2% against a national target of 92%. As
per the report of 1st April 2013 and 1st December 2018, in these duration there were failing in
care of 102 patients and having 67 patients that contribute to their death. But somehow there is
negative reviews by public of UK and other regions are provide health care service but due to
many people are dies where people are used to blame National Health Service team that they did
not enhance their proper check of medical as well as lack of attention in which patients get to
suffer a lot.
Opportunity:
The opportunities which are drawn that National Health Service can use digital marketing
strategies that enhance to use promote St. George University Hospital this would increase the
chance of investment from other trusties. As National Health Service is a big name in Health
Care sector at United Kingdom for that St George University could attain advanced level of
health basis technology that would increase the staff efficiency. As per the CQC reports of
inspection it create encourage also effective highlight some of areas (White, Dudley-Brown and
Terhaar, 2019). The embrace of great cross system working that creates enough corporation with
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other hospital that to integrate services with patients towards services for patients which makes
greater use of technology and expand our provision of virtual clinic.
Eventually, National Health Service is having presumes personal and professional hubs
through which they enhance many projects as well as provide opportunity to local student who
are pursue medical courses. The opportunities which driven by NHS is internship, training,
Apprenticed courses to the age group of 14-15 teen age group. Moreover National Health
Security having high value of trust by local UK base citizen because the services that driven by
NHS is facilitates effective comfort to patients.
Threats:
As per the basis of threats in related with National Health Services is elaborates about
that due to heavy raise of COVID St George University Hospital faces more implication in terms
of arranging patients as well as to not able to provide optimum facilities such as bed and other
health care services. High population reduce the less health care services, some of past year has
been maintain to build positive progress that creates some areas such as cancer (Pancham,
Millham and Fong, 2018). Some of financial implication raise same issues about true operational
performance which is might be challenged through increasing demand for services. In year of
2020, to monitor for tackling the disease number of quality operation and financial challenges.
As more threats for National Health Service, due to COVID situation when pandemic
raises chaos in global level. NHS faces high rate of patients dies is because of lack of heath
arrangements and the impact implies in people where they blaming to the hospitality team of
NHS for not taking good concerned for people effectively. Due to the medicine which NHS
provide to its patients were reacting in negative diseases such as increasing of diabetics and
antibiotic resistance.
PEST Analysis
The Pestle Analysis or more recently named Pestle is having framework which is used tool
through marketer for analyse and monitor the macro environment where it helps to measure
monitor and macro environment (Pestle analysis of NHS, 2019). The factor which is having
impact on organisation such as Political, Economical ,Social and Technological factor are
described on National Health Service of St. George Hospital University are as follows:
 Political: This factor is emphasis about the norms and regulation related with corporate
governance that make influence organisation productivity. For United Kingdom political
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factor is stable their foreign exchange polices, corporate taxation and other are
systematically implemented. In perspective of National Health Service about St. George
University, as other organisation they are also set to be affected through Brexit but
somehow NHS have raise many protection for their patient safety such clinical
effectiveness, positive health care environment, provide quality patients experience that
treated to individual. Some how the impact of Brexit is enhance many political economic
experts which have shared thoughts on matter (Kurtz, 2018). NHS also promotes to their
patient for making their healthy life styles which public create health driven as there are
mental health programs. One of the primary issue which generate that is lack of health
care resources, through the influence of Brexit many medicines and resources will
disrupts that part off European Union.
 Economic factor: According to this factor it mainly consider about current
performance of specific country’s economy in terms of inflation and recession which
creates high challenges towards country. In perspective of United Kingdom National
Health Services has facing multiple difficulties and moreover the entire UK effect of this
economic that fallout industries have not been ability to maintain standard (Doherty,
2020). On the matter of United Kingdom GDP is well stable and public is spending
power for enhance cross over with political. There are uncertainty losses such as
recession and natural climatic that creates direct impact on GDP and also increase crise o
financial that reduce commission revenue. The cost saving requirement increases if the
rate of inflation down and there are many other funding source to raise money by ST.
George University Hospital. United Kingdom government established certain austerity
measure which helps to deal within economic crashes and there was direct on the budget
which creates many economic burden due to crash.
 Social: Through this factor it depicts about to generalise the selecting the people through
demographic aspect in terms of age, gender and religion. As National Health Service only
focus on Children and young people that creates disabilities which having increased life
of expectancy. As per the survey the average population of United Kingdom is increasing
rapid rate. This is one of global phenomenon due to having differences in population of
various generation. And with the growing to increasing the health problem. The level of
employment rate in UK is 75% in which average wage of people are not able to afford
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high health care facilities (Kavitha and Sharma, 2020). The level of deprivation is
creates diabetes and cancer are constantly increasing these diseases also with have old
age segmentation.
 Technology: The overall movement which enhance technological improvement in
healthcare that have led a huge change in quality of services provided through National
Health Service. On the basis of Modern machinery such as complex scanning system
where all hospital across UK. The National Health Service has been able to using these
technological advancement to provide quality speedy health care towards all patients.
Evaluation:
As per above Pest analysis of National Health Services, as it summarised that through
four factors Political and Economical could be challenging aspect in terms of business corporate
polices, health regulation changes, recession, inflation and other perspective. This could be
reduce the growth of NHS company within public service. Apart from it, positive factor is Social
and Technologies in which United Kingdom is having advanced technologies scope that can
easily utilise by NHS and also due to quite high population of overall European region National
Health can provide quality of health care services as demographic manner.
Challenges for the National Heath Service after five years .
The challenges of National Health Service after five years are:
 Quality of Care Variable: As the health care service which provide by the National
Health Service might not be improvised because it fluctuates on the basis of human heath
dieaseses.
 The health system is funded towards general taxation which creates important politician
are held to accountable towards public for the 115 billion pounds as per NHS budget.
 An ageing population (Verma, Sood and Kalra, 2018): Health inequalities is growing
where the population are ageing through NHS that need to adopt. The workforce is
reducing while the population is growing are getting people older on which new health
care of innovative health care service would not enhance developed medical system.
 People are suffering: on the basis of COVID situation right now the condition is getting
worse and it create more challenges through people get suffer from different illness
(Vermeir, Jackson and Marshall, 2018). At the time of winter there is high chances of
illness could be increase effectively.
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Recommendations
On the basis of this health care report about health care environment is highlighting aboit
different traits of information related within their services and other medical care health
impact on their growth.
 According to the situation which driven in case study that St George is medical base
institute that govern by NHS. And there are different opportunities and challenges that
need to faces by them. Some of the major recommendation to suggest that St. George
institute by NHS need to spread more health care awareness related to COVID-19 to
reduce and allow better understanding effective precaution to overcome this harmful
disease. .
 Moreover, the research team of NHS need to explore the health care environment in
perspective of using proper medical facilities which is require to provide better and
quality health care service to patients better manner. thus, they can reduce unwanted
disease like diabetes and illness of obesity.
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CONCLUSION
From above report is summarised about health care environment in which it contains about
Swot Analysation where 5 strength and 5 weakness are driven on National Health Service.
Workforce of NHS is important assets where more than are working commitment resilience. By
consider COVID situation which creates high impact to having poor workforce planning that
creates National workforce strategy. The pandemic is having undefined staff often work under
enormous strain as result of workforce shortages. National Health Services towards detailed
workforce. Early intervention is the process of providing specialist intervention and support
about to person who is experiencing demonstrating any of the early symptoms of mental illness.
Intervention and support only citical for preventing or reducing progress of mental illness.
Further, it is consider overall Swot Analysis and finding are generates on JSN and annual report
of National Health Service. At last recommendation are highlight that on the basis of SWOT and
findings considered.
Recommendation
On the basis of above St. George University Hospital which is governed by National
Health Service United Kingdom. Some of point which highlight through Swot analysis in which
the main key focuses on Strength and Opportunities which need to enhance more for
development are:
 As Staffs are more important aspect for St. George Hospital by NHS as it itself ,is huge
brand in Health care sector of United Kingdom is because their services are quality and
quite affordable by people.
 To make more staff effectiveness in their performance, National Health Service need to
focuses on their competency to that NHS must provide to allocate them training and
development which direct impact on their performance effective manner.
 In United Kingdom, National Health Service (St. George Hospital University) having
positive advantage that they serve local people of United Kingdom as well as Europe
region to serve their health care service for building better trust development.
 There is high scope of advanced technologies in which NHS can attain them to make
flexible work procedure along with better work productivity generates .
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 As all these point which are recommended it can help to reduce the uncertainty and
improve weakness in better manner
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