Environmental Scan of Older Persons Health and Social Services (NHS)

This report presents an environmental scan of health and social services for older persons, focusing on the practices of the NHS over the past 12 months. The introduction highlights the importance of environmental assessments in health and social care settings to improve service delivery. The main body of the report analyzes various aspects, including decline perspectives (mortality rates), the use of assistive technologies, case management principles, person-centered and relationship-centered approaches, and consumer-directed care. The analysis covers how NHS addresses the needs of older adults through these factors. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings, emphasizing the significance of effective environmental management in enhancing the quality of care and meeting the needs of older citizens. References to supporting literature are also included.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
For the older people in a health and social care setting, the effective assessment of
environmental conditions are required to be followed that will impact the delivering of the
products and services which are been taken within consideration by the health and social care
organisation. This will help in carry out the health care measures in a much effective way. This
will help in carrying out that will help in carrying out the operations which will be carried out by
the organisation in a significant manner. The current report will cover the details of
environmental measures that are been carried out by UK based health and social case firm, NHS.
The assessment will cover the detailed information about the decline perspective, technologies
used and consumer directed care measures undertaken by the organisation.
MAIN BODY
Effective measure that are been carried out by the organisation will improve the quality of
measures which will help in meeting the operational needs of the organisation. This will help in
proper planning of the operations which will help in improving the overall performance of the
organisational health and social care measures which will enhance the firm and improve the
performance of the organisation in a significant manner. This will help in carrying out the
effective environmental skills that will help in proper planning of the operations and thus, will
help in carrying out of the measures which will help in suitable growth and development of the
operations which are been carried out by the firm. The effective environmental scan factors that
are been carried out by the organisation are:
Decline perspective: This includes the analysis of the decline in mortality rate and other
diseases. In order to achieve the effective decrease in the death rate and improve the well being
of people, proper health and social care measures are been carried out by the organisation that
will help in improving the overall operations of the organisation. This will help in improving the
overall well being and health condition of people or customers at NHS. The decrease in the
mortality rates will help the organisation to have a high level of customer satisfaction level that
will lead to increase in the performance of the chosen enterprise firm (Maltais and et.al., 2018).
Proper assessment of the decline measures will help in carrying the growth objectives and setting
a suitable policy that assists a good rise in health and social care measures in a significant
manner. The rise in the operational capacity of the organisation will lead to the improvement in
meeting the needs and requirement of older customers.
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Assistive technology: Evaluation of different health and medical care technologies will impact
the conditions of the customers or patients at the NHS. This will help in improving the health and
well being situation, supporting early and effective diagnosis of diseases and initiate their proper
treatment. Latest and advance medical technologies like CT Scan, MRI, Stem cell transplanting
etc are few of the technological measures that are been scanned in order to improve the
effectiveness of the health and social care measures for older people, by NHS. Within part one
year, it has improved the standard of the health and social care measures which are been carried
out by the organisation. This will also improve the reputation of the chosen health and social care
enterprise as the advance and effective organisation that will help in proper assessment of the
operations that will help in carrying out the health care measures in an effective way. These
technology will help in monitoring all the measures leading to the screening of a patients and
providing a suitable growth and development approach for the organisation.
Principle of case management: Effective case management measures that will be undertaken by
the organisation will help in proper assessment of the operations that will help in effective
handling of the operations that are been carried out by the organisation. This will help in carrying
out of the evaluation of different types of medical cases or diseases that are been treated or
managed by a health and social care setting (Wakerman and et.al., 2017). This will help in
carrying out the operations and thus, will help in meeting the needs of the patients or older
customers in an effective way. The usage of suitable medical based technologies and monitoring
the case of a patient will help in the treatment measures which can be assimilated within NHS in
order to improve the health and social care measures which are been carried out by the
organisation in part 12 months. This will help in the proper planning of the operations that are
been carried out by the organisation in an effective way. Ethical analysis and maintenance
operations are required to be followed by the firm, that will help in suitable rise in adopting the
health care measures which are been carried out within the firm.
Person centred approach: From past one year, NHS is look after proper evaluation of the
person or patients needs and requirements that supports the organisation in carrying out of their
health and social care measures in an effective and significant manner (Murphy and et.al., 2016).
Other than this, it will help in proper rise in the customer centric measures that helps in the
operations and gaining of effective suitable measures which will help in proper assessment of the
operations which will help in proper assessment of the operations which will help in improving
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the operations and thus will lead to increase the operations that are been carried out by the firm.
Services and treatment measure that are been arranged as per the requirements of a elder
customer provides the increase to customer satisfaction level. Besides this, it will also help in
handling of the operation that will help in meeting the needs of the organisation to handle the
growth measures which are been carried out at an enterprise like NHS.
Relationship centred approach: Maintaining an effective relationship or connectivity between
the care service provider and the patient, regardless to age is very important. This will help in
carrying out the measures which are been carried out by the organisation and thus will lead to
rise in improving the scanning of the environmental factors that are been carried out by the
organisation in order to identify the scope of improvement within the health and social care
factors that are been carried out by the organisation. This will help in handling of the measures
and meeting the best medical operations (Papanicolas, Woskie and Jha, 2018). In part one year,
NHS has been developing a good connectivity with the customer will support in economic and
functional growth of the organisation. This will help in meeting the operational measures which
are been undertaken by the firm. It also supports in improving the loyalty and trust level towards
the care service providers, doctors, nursing staff and the organisation, in whole. This will help in
proper rise in the connectivity and handling of the operations, leading to improvement in health
and social care services that are been carried out by the firm. This will help min maintain the
operations that will help in suitable rise in the operations which supports in enhancing the
services in an effective way. Other than this, it will also help in covering the communication gap
between care service providers at NHS and the patient or customer and their families.
Consumer directed care across a range: As the older people will be constantly visiting the
health and social care home on regular basis, the services are required to be altered and
developed according to their convenience and comfort (McNeil and et.al., 2019.). This will help
in improving the operations and other measures which will be carried out within the
organisations which will enhance the performance of the health care firm like NHS and enable
them to give the best of the service measures which are been carried out within the organisation
in an effective way. It assists in improving the growth measures and carrying out of the
operations in an effective way. It also assists the organisation to improve the quality of health
and social care services undertaken by the firm.
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All these measures will support a proper planning of the operations and meeting out of
the measures and thus will help in carrying the growth measures in a significant manner. Besides
this, it will also support the complete analysis of growth measures that are been taken by the
health and social care organisation.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of the effective assessment that is been carried out by the organisation, this can be
said that the proper management of the operations will lead to the rise in the operations and this
will help in effective rise in the effectiveness of a health and social care service provider firm
that will help in suitable management of the environmental factors that are been carried out at the
organisation. This will play a crucial role in carrying out of the health care operations and
meeting the needs of older citizens.
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REFERENCES
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McNeil, J.J. and et.al., 2019. Cohort Profile: The ASPREE Longitudinal Study of Older Persons
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Papanicolas, I., Woskie, L.R. and Jha, A.K., 2018. Health care spending in the United States and
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Wakerman, J. and et.al., 2017. A systematic review of primary health care delivery models in
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