Evaluating External Influences on Health and Social Care Organizations

This report analyzes the influences on health and social care organizations, focusing on the impact of external environmental factors such as political, social, and demographic changes, with a specific case study of the Voluntary Service Organisation (VSO). It evaluates how organizations respond to these external factors, including the role of external stakeholders like customers, suppliers, and local authorities. The report identifies key political issues such as changing government policies and fluctuations in drug importing policies, and it explores organizational methods for identifying and managing stakeholders within the context of these external factors. The document concludes with a list of references used in the analysis. Desklib provides a platform to access this and other solved assignments for students.

INFLUENCES ON HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care service organisation have raised in recent
years. These type of organisations helps the disabled people,
treats all the diseases and medical issues. They aim to help
people in the best possible way. External factors influencing the
health and social care services are discussed. Also, impacts of
type of structure and culture of the organisation on the service
consumers. Behaviour theories of the individuals and groups on
the cited organisation is also evaluated. Role of leadership in
service provision and the contribution of leaders in the
organisation are also discussed.

TASK 1
1.1 Analyse the impact of external environmental factors on health and social
care organisations
Voluntary Service Organisation(VSO) is a UK based charitable organisation.
Influence of external factor on health and social care services on VSO has
become a significant aspect of development and planning methods. These
factors include, political, social, demographical, legal and other external
factors. Changing of policies regularly by the government to reduce
expenditure of this sector, fluctuations in drugs importing policy, strikes by
the employees, renegotiation of the contracts to reduce cost are major
political issue affecting this sector

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1.2 Evaluate the ways in which organisations respond to the impact
of external factors, including those of external stakeholder
External stakeholders of VSO include customers, suppliers,
investors, media, health visitors, public health workforce, quality
assessors patients, local authorities etc. In the context of external
factors and stakeholder VSO applies two methods: identification
of individuals or groups to be included in the programme and
their management

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