Planning and Managing Resources in Healthcare: A Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of planning and managing resources within the healthcare sector, particularly focusing on the challenges and opportunities faced by organizations like the NHS Foundation Trust (SLMH). It underscores the need to balance management priorities with user outcomes, emphasizing the importance of effective human resource planning and the role of project management in managing financial resources across short, medium, and long-term funding horizons. The report identifies key resources of healthcare funding, such as grants and cooperative agreements, and discusses the impact of budgetary restrictions and financial risks. It also explores factors influencing decision-making processes in healthcare funding, highlighting the significance of accountability and responsibility in resource allocation. The report concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of resource management in ensuring efficient healthcare service delivery and addressing the shortage of skilled professionals within the sector.

PLANNING AND MANAGING
RESOURCES

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
P.1. Discuss the need to balance management priorities against outcomes for serving users
when planning and managing resources.....................................................................................1
P.2. Identify three different resources of healthcare funding and discuss the role of project
management in managing & financial resources in relation to short, medium and long terms
funding........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Planning and managing the resources in healthcare sector in industry in case of proper
provision of metal healthcare services. Apart from it, the report will be discussed about current
issues facing by NHS foundation trust (SLMH) organisation, and it need to replaced its nursed to
new employees in case of improvement within its professionals mental healthcare facilities. The
assignment also will be discussed about identification of such factors which is influencing
decision making process of firm.
MAIN BODY
P.1. Discuss the need to balance management priorities against outcomes for serving users when
planning and managing resources
Understanding of the concepts of resource planning: Management of resources or
planning about manpower is the method by which an organisation ensures that it has the right
type of people, at right time, at right place and they are working effectively to assist the
organisation in accomplishing organisation’s overall goals and objectives. This is a frequent
process which is being continuous within business environment. Human resources are the most
essential assets of each organisation which assist company to gain growth and development of
the human resources in business (Smith, Nolan, Normand and McPake, 2013). In case of mental
healthcare organisation, they need to ensure that they are having skilled, trained and potential
human resources to attain the healthcare objectives of organisation in industry.
The environment in which health and social care operates: Health and social care
climates are complex systems in which care is delivered by its appropriate professionals. Several
types of settings are present here in which health and social care is delivered by multiple
organisations in this sector. NHS England trust is delivering variety of improved health and
social care services in which perspective of the physical, mental and social well-being of
individual person in communities. Since 2010, the total number of NHS mental health nurse in
England has dropped by 15% in parts of London, about 20% of job vacancies are unfilled. Care
quality commission revealed that only 14% if mental health patient said that they received
appropriate care in a crisis and a review of psychiatric said they commission on Actual Adult
Psychiatric Care found that 16% of patients per ward could have treated in an alternate setting,
involving crisis houses and rehab services (Mielczarekand Uziałko-Mydlikowska, 2012). The
business is facing wide rage of healthcare professionals shortage within organisational
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environment in case of mental health nurses are taking on a higher caseload. So it is necessary to
appropriate planning of hiring new slot for effective provision of mental healthcare at South
London and Maudsley NHS foundation trust (SLMH).
The importance of effective human resource planning: It is very essential to having
effective human resources planning for NHS foundation trust (SLMH) within its organisational
environment in order to proper provision of its mental healthcare facilities in its areas. Having
better human resource planning is to have an accurate number of employees required, with
matching skill requirements to accomplishing organisational goals and objectives. In given case.
NHS foundation trust (SLMH), in parts of London, about 20% of job vacancies rare unfilled.
Helen Gilburt, a fellow in health policy says that, the organisation have not got sufficient
workforce to deliver that care, people are more likely to lapse (Loorbach and Rotmans, 2010).
The nursing shortage is caused partly by an ageing workforce that is not being replaced quickly
enough. In the organisation, the nurses aged were more than 50 and the organisation require
hiring new employees or replace old nurses from new nurses who having more effective skills
and experiences about mental healthcare provision. So they will be able to deliver health and
social care services adequately.
The need for a systematic process of business planning for examining NHS foundation trust
(SLMH) organisation and its environment:
Business planning is also known as strategic planning for long rage planning is managing
in which directed process that is defines about allocation of proper resources and process within
the business environment in order to functioning of its various business processes.
Replacement of Nurses: In case of NHS foundation trust (SLMH), the organisation is
facing wide rage of nursing shortage is caused partly by an ageing workforce that is not being
replaced quickly enough, so require to hire new nurses by replacing it, to increment in
performance effectiveness of the business (LaFond, 2013).
Technological changes: Variety of innovative technological changes can be seen within
mental healthcare sector in case of provision of fresh training and personnel skills to existing
employees. The organisation must need to comply with updated and advanced technological
instruments in context of furnishing training to increment in skills and experience level of their
employees.
The importance of voluntary/community sector within health and social care sector:
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In London, variety of NGO's and non-profitable organisations are working in this sector
and delivering effective health and social care services within business environment. They are
helping NHS Trust in respect to helping its nurses to making better relationship and proper
execution of its functioning upon treating its patients well.
Effective resource management and good budgeting skills:
Its Human resource department require conducting effective hiring program at workplace
to replacing its old employees and nurses from new employees in respect to boosting up
influences its healthcare facilities towards patients (Kongstvedt, 2012). Business strategy should
focus upon how financial resources will be deployed to deliver the strategy to distributing
appropriate proportion of finance to each functionalities of the business. The outcome of each
budget decision must be communicated to all relevant staffs of the businesses.
P.2. Identify three different resources of healthcare funding and discuss the role of project
management in managing & financial resources in relation to short, medium and long
terms funding
Resources are central to the management process of each organisation. In case of health
and social care organisation, they have very limited supply but are the means to attain goals and
meet goals and meet demand of services users and others in a broader society. So it can be said
that, healthcare organisation must implement effective strategies in case of having right kinds of
resources of funding within organisational environment. Financial balance is essential for each
healthcare organisation (Almalki, FitzGerald and Clark, 2011).
Grants: Grants are cooperative agreements are usually awarded to support or assist
projects whereas contracts procure a definite service or product. Grants may be awarded by
various foundations, corporations or agencies of the federal government. So the getting grants
from various foundation can be very effective source of finance for NHS England rust (SLMH)
in context of execution of its various healthcare facilities (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017).
Cooperative agreements: Making cooperative agreements with multiple health and social
care organisation can be one of the effective source of funding for the organisation.
Contracts: In order to gaining efficient amount of finance, its professionals require to
making financial contracts with its several types of social and healthcare organisation can assist
them to generating wide range of money.
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The relationship between planning and management of resources and the performance
of the individual, the team and the organisation:
Planning and management of a projection is tow separate functions of management. In
case of appropriate allocation of resources within NHS England rust (SLMH) organisation,
planning of its care projection precedes controlling and controlling succeeds planning. With the
assistance of systematic planning of resources allocation in the company, as per predetermined
planing of controlling of resources like replacing of nurses and arranging proper financial
resources to completion of its various tasks in company. It is necessary for the team of
organisation in order to creating collaboration with various team members in order to completion
of each social care task (De Vries and Huijsman, 2011). Team working is necessary part for
company and the individual and team working as both are important for smooth running of an
enterprise. Each individual plays vital role in case of completion of variety of business tasks of
the firm. Contribution of each employees most needed to improving into performances of NHS
England rust (SLMH) firm. In addition, numbers of issues are being faced by firm due to
shortage of mental care professionals in the organisation. So effectiveness of its facilities is being
reduced within organisational environment. New hired and existing employees should be
engaged with each other within the business environment in such areas where something new
activities can be gained in relevant form (Appari and Johnson, 2010).
Discuss accountability and responsibility in relation to appropriate uses of resources:
In order to appropriate utilisation of resources of the healthcare organisation, it is
necessary for its management professionals to having relevant accountability and responsibility
of allocation of each resources within the firm. In case of accountability, it can be bestowed but
responsibility might be given or received from others within the business environment. Within
NHS England rust (SLMH), several types of healthcare facilities are being provided in
organisation environment towards their mental patients (Chartier, ed., 2014). Various kinds of
new responsibilities are being generated within organisation, so it being necessary for its Human
resource department to hiring new efficient staff, which have potential to taking over all
responsibilities with perfectness in respective manner, so the performance of the organisation
come out with significant ways. Managers of the organisation must be accountable in case of
provision of its mental healthcare services at South London and Maudsley, in respect to reaching
out at appropriate level of positioning.
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Budgetary restrictions in the current fiscal & political climate:
In case of provision of various types of healthcare services in industry. In 2016,figures
analysed by the King's Fund think tank showed that, “mental health trust is England are still
having their budget cut, despite government assurances they would be funded on a par with
physical healthcare” (Berman, Bowman, West and Van Wart, 2012). The sector is facing high
range of mental health issues at wide level, and its professionals need to make sure that, the
government of the UK is furnishing less amount of development of healthcare sector, which is
reducing the betterment of this sector at South London and Maudsley, so it can be said that, the
role of fiscal policy defines that, numbers of economic issues are being faced the organisation in
industry. Allocation of less budgeting in this sector making negative impact upon human
resource planning and business functionalities within industries in sufficient form.
Explain financial risk: Numbers of financial risks are being arisen in the case of proper
execution of its various operational functionalities in industry. Market risk, credit risk, liquidity
risk, operational risk, legal risk etc. all these factors of the business can affect the financial terms
of organisation effectively.
Identify the factors that can influence the decision-making process when managing
healthcare funding:
Lack availability of financial resources might affect business performance within
healthcare industry in respective manner. Numbers of issues are being faced by the organisation
within industry in case of provision of healthcare services which is affecting decision-making
process of firm (Aronsson, Abrahamsson and Spens, 2011).
Lack skills and experience of nurses can affecting the financial uses upon its various
healthcare projection in respective form.
CONCLUSION
From the analysis, it is concluded that, planning and management of resources within
health and social care sector is crucial part in case of running its business functionalities. In
addition to it, the report concludes about several types of resources must be controlled by its
professionals in appropriate form and also replacing old nurses from new employees.
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