Health and Care

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Health and Social Care
Organizations
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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Analyse the impact of external environment
  factors on health and social care organisations.
• Evaluate the ways in which organisations respond
  to the impact of external factors, including
  those of external stakeholders.
• Conclusion
• References

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Introduction

• Health and social care study delves with the
  aspect of exploring the influences that the
  external environment is having on service
  delivery as well as effectiveness associated with
  the health and social care organizations.

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External Environment Factors with help for PESTLE
analysis

• The impact of external environment factors on
  health and social care organisations can be
  analyzed with the help of PESTLE analysis which
  is as follows,
• Political (P) This takes into consideration the
  different political scenarios including changes
  to law, governmental changes, policies of
  government as well as trade unions. It is the
  responsibility of national organizations such as
  Care Quality Commission (CQC) as well as National
  Institute for Health and Clinical and Healthcare
  Excellence to set up policies as well as
  guidelines.

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External Environment Factors with help for PESTLE
analysis

• Economical (E) The major economical issues that
  the health and social care organisations are
  presently facing increases with costs associated
  with fuel and food. The major factors takes into
  consideration changes to the NHS financial regime
  that includes movement to PbR, introduction of
  PBC, as well as limited accessibility towards
  capital.

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External Environment Factors with help for PESTLE
analysis

• Social (S) The issues such as patient choice,
  changing expectations as well as changes in the
  demography will all have an influence on
  activity. There is also an increase regarding
  patient or public activism for instance, to
  harness new social networking technologies.

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External Environment Factors with help for PESTLE
analysis

• Technological (T) The technological aspects
  includes new information as well as technologies
  of communication presenting scopes to strengthen
  the diagnostic capabilities that includes
  services that are considered remote. The NHS is
  faced with an increasing number of treatments
  that are considered to be new as well as costly
  that requires technological advancement regarding
  delivery of care.

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External Environment Factors with help for PESTLE
analysis

• Legal (L) There is the need for increasing
  regulatory regimes in public health care systems
  regarding the complete volume of external
  oversight as well as mechanisms for
  regulation.There should also be the mentioning of
  the legal viewpoint that might reasonably be
  expected for reducing rationality as well as
  increasing risk aversion.

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External Environment Factors with help for PESTLE
analysis

• Environmental (E) These issues include the
  growing agendas regarding environment as well as
  awareness towards community that is presenting
  challenges such as cost of compliance but also
  scopes such as strengthening the credentials of
  the community, to build on the achievements for
  reducing the carbon footprint. The services
  should also be centered around the patients.

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External Factors, Including External Stakeholders

• Organisations respond to the impact of external
  factors, including those of external stakeholders
• The ways in which health and social care
  organisations are responding to the impact of
  external factors are evaluated as follows,

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External Factors, Including External Stakeholders

• Political (P) For national initiatives in
  respect of the
• promotion of innovative and translational
  research in healthcare, the health and social
  care organizations respond by focusing on
  innovation, wealth creation as well as
  translation of research benefits.

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External Factors, Including External Stakeholders

• Economical (E) In respect of changes to NHS
  payment and pricing mechanisms, the health and
  social care organizations respond by engaging
  with
• GP commissioners on moves towards years of
  life payments and alternative models of service
  delivery as well as funding.

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External Factors, Including External Stakeholders

• Social (S) In respect of rising birth rate, the
  health and social care organisations have
  responded by expanding the newborn intensive care
  service.
• Technological (T) Regarding the availability of
  new
• drug therapies as well as treatment regimes,
  the health and social care organisations have
  responded by considering the introduction of new
  treatment procedures.

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External Factors, Including External Stakeholders

• Legal (L) In accord to the Health and Social
  Care Act 2012, the health and social care
  organisations have responded by developing
  positive engagement with
• new commissioners.
• Environmental (E) In respect of energy, the
  health and social care organisations have
  responded by vacating as well as demolishing
  accommodations that are old and
  energy-inefficient.

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Conclusion

• Health and Social Care is associated with the
  aspect of analyzing the impact of external
  environment factors on health and social care
  organisations and evaluating the ways in which
  organisations are responding to the impact of
  external factors.

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References

• Lancaster, G (2010). Essentials of Marketing
  Management. Taylor Francis.
• Daft, R (2015). Organization Theory and Design.
  Cengage Learning.
• Palmer, A (2011). The Business Environment.
  McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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