Implementation Planning: A Strategy of NHS

Implementation Planning: A Strategy of NHS
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Executive Summary
It is important for NHS to have a clearly defined, agreed and documented roles and
responsibilities for each individual or group, who are involved in the initiative. Defining and
responsibilities of each individual or group would enable NHS in building consensus or
understanding the opportunities and challenges regarding the initiative. NHS is resorted to its
priority, which is to improve the care, support and treatment and support for those, who are
diagnosed with cancer. A wide range of specific steps, including design for increasing
prevention, speeding up diagnosis, improving the patients’ experience and providing aid to
people, who are living with and beyond the disease have been published by the National
Cancer Transformation Board. NHS needs to ensure active involvement of its stakeholders
throughout its policy life cycle, which includes developing, implementing, delivering the
policy, along with reviewing each stage of the policies. It is crucial for NHS to take the
feedbacks of its stakeholders into consideration and incorporate them for managing the
expectations of the stakeholders before engagement, during the time of the engagement and
after the engagement.
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Implementation Planning...........................................................................................................4
Governance................................................................................................................................6
Analytical Survey Analysis........................................................................................................6
Value Chain Analysis.................................................................................................................8
Engaging stakeholders.............................................................................................................11
Managing risk...........................................................................................................................12
Monitoring, reviewing and evaluation.....................................................................................14
Resource Management.............................................................................................................17
Management Strategy...............................................................................................................18
Conclusion................................................................................................................................19
Reference List..........................................................................................................................20
Appendix..................................................................................................................................23
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Introduction
Implementation planning can be defined as the process, through which, organizations plan
their strategic goals and objectives to tactical goals and objectives. Implementation planning
enables an organization in describing milestones, conditions for success and explaining how
or what portion of a strategic plan is needed for an operation within a given operational
period (covwarkpt.nhs.uk, 2016). Besides, implementation planning is crucial for all
organizations, irrespective of their types in establishing their activities and budgets for each
part for the next one to three years. It also leads an organization link the strategic plan with its
activities; it would deliver along with its resources needed by it for the delivery. Hence, it can
be said that implementation planning is fundamental for organizations in enabling them
experience successful outcomes in accordance with their decisions. In this assignment, the
implementation planning of NHS would be provided along with the Planning, Governance,
Managing risk, Engaging stakeholders, Monitoring, review and evaluation and Management
Strategy.
Implementation Planning
The National Health Survey (NHS) seems to deliver thousands of initiatives every year
successfully. Implementation risk is included in its various policies, projects and programs
and that is why, appropriate management discipline, including engagement with central
agencies is required for maximizing the prospects of successfully delivery. NHS is resorted to
its priority, which is to improve the care, support, treatment, and support for those, who are
diagnosed with cancer (nhsinvolvement.co.uk, 2017). A wide range of specific steps,
including design for increasing prevention, speeding up diagnosis, improving the patients’
experience and providing aid to people, who are living with and beyond the disease have
been published by the National Cancer Transformation Board. NHS has outlined its
significant progress in a Progress Report (2016-2017) for delivering excellent cancer services
in England, including:
 Priority investment for faster and earlier diagnosis
 Installation of 12 upgrades for radiotherapy equipment and 36 Linear Accelerators at
more than 23 hospitals (emeraldinsight.com, 2017)
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 Implementing a Recovery Package and developing a quality life metric for supporting
survivors.
In the current scenario, survival rates for cancer have become higher in England. However,
NHS has resorted to implement steps in order to ensure early diagnosis of cancer patients,
along with tackling variation in access to care and workforce (nhsinvolvement.co.uk, 2017).
The implantation plan seems to focuses on six priority areas:
1. Advanced diagnosis
2. Deterrence and health of the public
3. Experience of the patients
4. Looking after patients, who are living with and beyond cancer
5. Investing for a high quality, modern service
6. Accountability, Commissioning and Provision.
Effective implementation planning needs an approach, which is most structured in terms of
thinking and communicating in various areas:
1. Planning
2. Governance
3. Managing risk
4. Engaging stakeholders
5. Monitoring, review and evaluation
6. Resource Management
7. Management Strategy
Importance of implementation planning is as follows:
 Addressing a strategic priority regarding the government
 It includes complex or major changes (nhsinvolvement.co.uk, 2017)
 It includes important cross jurisdictional issues and cross agency
 It is sensitive in certain areas, including, stakeholders receiving media attention
 Needs vital implementation
 Includes complex or new service delivery arrangements or technology
 It has been formed over a shorter span of time.
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Governance
It is critical for NHS to have effective governance arrangements. It should consider effective
governance arrangements primarily in order to plan for a new initiative.
NHS should design governance arrangements in parallel with other early planning activities,
including, stakeholder analysis, initial risk assessment and key task timelines
(emeraldinsight.com, 2016). It is crucial for NHS to develop governance arrangements
collaboratively along with agreement with all the key stakeholders in order to ensure
governance structure’s suitability in accordance with the demands of the initiatives.
Best practice principles and processes for helping NHS foundation trust boards of directors
are set by the code of governance, including,
 Enabling the organization in performing better (health.org.uk, 2017)
 Maintaining advance quality regarding corporate governance
 Providing the patients with effective, secured services
Analytical Survey Analysis
(Please find the analytical survey in Appendix)
From the analytical survey, it has been identified that most of the respondents are agreed that
most of the respondents are agreed regarding the asked questions through survey. On the
other hand, it has been identified that most of the respondents believe that analytics can be
applied as a principle business issue that every organization faces as a whole. In addition, it
has also been identified that functional areas can be improved with the help of better
investment planning in case of analytics-related HR resources. It can also be identified that
with the help of better planning and strategy, it becomes easy to predict the importance of
analytical skills, which can be proved as effective for an organization.
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