UMP Organization or Service Project Plan

UMP Organization or Service Project Plan
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UMP Organisation or Service Project Plan Template
Student Number: 312875 Organisation or service: Learning Disability Services
Question 1. Identify and analyse three strategic issues facing the overall sector of your chosen business or service. (Total 300 words)
Point Strategic Issues Evidence (financial, reports, news etc) Model(s)/Theory(ies)
1
Political
Lack of workforce
“The Mental Health Network, which represents mental
health and learning disability service providers in
England, said that one in 10 posts in specialist mental
health services was currently vacant” (Rimmer, Abi).
Difficulty in hiring trained people to work in this area
tends to increase as Brexit will prevent the sector to
easily hire people from EU due to the complexity of
immigration processes.
Rimmer, Abi-British Medica Journal
(BJM), January 31,2018)
Pestel - Brexit
2
Economic
Fund Cutting
Real threat in loosing access to EU funds. Withdrawal of
funding for programmes and research development may
happen. There are many programmes, schools, jobs and
research teams based in the UK that are in fact funded by
EU funds. For example, the ESF funds six employment
programmes for people with disabilities across the UK.
The main concern is where will these funds come from as
the government did not yet commit to continue funding
these programmes after 2020.
www.theguardian.com ( Alfonso
Montero); (August 14,2017)
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
Pestel - Cut of funding coming
from the EU
3
Legal
Change in disability rights protection
In the last years EU, influenced the legislation to protect
those with disabilities. With the Uk leaving the European
Union, the sector is now facing a change in the current
laws, resulting of limited rights which are now
www.theguardian.com ( Alfonso
Montero); (August 14,2017)
Legal – Change in laws which
were impact by EU

safeguarded by the European Court of Justice. There is a
real possibility that Uk citizens will not be able to appeal
to the European court in case of injustice (Montero, A).
Question 2. Identify and analyse three challenges facing your chosen company or service. (Total 300 words)
Point Challenges Evidence (financial, reports, news etc) Model(s)/Theory(ies)
1 Staff recruitment
The free movement of people within the EU will have a great impact
in the NHS workforce. Approximately 200 thousand professionals
which represent 5% of the total workers employed by the NHS.
The immigration system will become more restrictive in the EU
making harder to recruit staff from the different EU states.
“The Mental Health Network, which represents mental health and
learning disability service providers in England, said that one in 10
posts in specialist mental health services was currently vacant. “
(Rimmer,A).
This sector is currently suffering due to the lack of specialists and
tends to get worse by the new immigration restrictions within the
EU.
www.ukandeu.ac.uk
2 Development issues
There are many active programmes in the UK that are funded by the
EU such as horizon 2020, The innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI),
EU Health Programme 2014-2020, European Structural and
Investment Funds and Ad hoc EU funding calls. One of the main
threats that we will face after Brexit is that we cannot be sure if we
will still be granted access to these programmes as well as its funds.
The free movement of goods will also affect the NHS as it currently
imports many vital drugs from other countries within the EU, it will
become much more expensive, harder to access and might take
longer to receive.
www.confed.org
3 Legal aspects
NHS employees with disabilities may no longer be protected by the
bbc.co.uk