Analysing External Factors Impacting Health & Social Care Orgs

This report analyzes the influence of external environmental factors on health and social care organizations, focusing on Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). It identifies key external factors such as public and media concerns, legal frameworks, political issues, and resource/funding constraints, along with external stakeholders like the Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, and local government. The report explores how organizations respond to these influences by monitoring consumer reviews, implementing appropriate policies and regulations, using upgraded technology, ensuring employee safety, and allocating resources effectively. It also highlights the importance of data analysis and inspection to achieve organizational goals and objectives, emphasizing the role of external stakeholders in gathering and analyzing data to provide proper services and monitoring activities. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources for students.

Influence on Health and Social Care
organisation

Introduction
Health is an essential element for a human being to
maintain a standard of physical as well as mental well
being which is appropriate to a particular society.
Along with this, it is necessary to perform certain
physical and mental activities. It depends on different
factors which includes biological factors,
environmental factor and standard of living.

1.1 Impact of external environmental factors on Voluntary service overseas
External environment composed from all the outside factors or having the
impact on the operations of the business. The business must act to keep
up its flow of the operations so that they can attain the success. There are
different external factors which affect the ability of business or
investment so that they can achieve strategic goals along with the
objectives. Different external environment factors which impact the
Voluntary Service Overseas are:
Public and media concerns
Legal framework
Political issues
Resource and funding issues

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There are some external stakeholders which affect the
Voluntary Service Overseas. They are:
Care quality Commission
Department of health
Local government

1.2 Ways in which organisations respond to the impact of external factors
There are different ways by which they can maintain a relationship between external
environment and health and social care organisation. The staff members of Voluntary
Service Overseas can check the reviews which are given by the consumers and by which
employees can give the respond to the impact of the external factors. They have to use
appropriate policies, rules and regulations so that they give the answer. The employees
have to use appropriate strategy and provide funds according to demand so that they
can ensure social stability. Along with this, they have to use upgraded technology to
develop products. Technology has made a lot of complicated task very user friendly. The
manager of Voluntary Service Overseas have to provide safe environment to employees
as it is the matter of safety and by that they can provide best services. If the users of the
services are facing problems then the employees have to solve that so that they can
provide proper respond to the impact of external factors. They have to properly inspect
the activities which they are doing in Voluntary Service Overseas and have to set the
targets which helps in providing proper respond. The manager of the business entity has
to analyse the data or records which they are attaining or gathering from the different
sources so that they do not face any issues.

M1
There are different factors having a impact on Voluntary
service overseas which are economy, government, media,
funding and resource issues. The employees have to properly
allocate the resources according to needs so that they can not
face any problems and by that they can provide the proper
services to the consumers. Some external stakeholders which
help in providing the responds to the impact of external factors
in the different ways. Likewise, department of health gather
information or data and while using that data they have to
properly analyse so that they can provide the proper services.
Along with this local government can do the proper inspection
or monitoring so that they can achieve the targets.

M3
The staff members of Voluntary service overseas have
to collect the appropriate data or information and by
using that they can allocate the resources which can be
used in the different situations. Along with this they
can do the inspection of the workers or the area where
operation and business activities are doing which helps
in attaining the goals and objectives.

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