Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea Healthcare Environment ( PEST ANALYSIS)

Assessment PEST analysis Assessment code: 010 Academic Year: 2019/20 Trimester: 3 Module Title: Healthcare Environment Module Code: MOD004054 Level: 4 Module Leader: Ursula Hennessy Weighting: 50% Word Limit: 2500

This excludes bibliography and other items listed in rule 6.75 of the Academic Regulations: http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/academic/public/academic_regs.pdf

Assessed Learning Outcomes

4

Submission Deadline :

This assignment must be received by no later than 14:00 on Wednesday, 08 July 2020

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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

As an external consultant you have been asked to perform a PEST analysis to help make a decision about funding. Should the inner London borough invest a substantial amount of it’s funding to increase service user’s involvement in how services are commissioned and run?

Instructions:

It’s your role to research ONE of the following London boroughs/councils: Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth, Westminster or City of London. Look at the borough’s JSNA and their CCG plans and their website. Use these sources to decide if the borough is already encouraging service user involvement and question should they now increase the funding to expand this work?

Display five of your key research findings in each section of the PEST table. (Include the table in the assignment)

Write paragraphs about two of the key issues that you have highlighted (Two from each section of the PEST table)

Finally, you will make five recommendations based on your findings.

You must include references for all your research.

Follow the structure over the page

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Follow the structure below

Firstly, describe what involving service users in commissioning and running support services means (4 lines)

Next describe the role of a PEST analysis tool (4 lines)

Political Hackney CCG has committed to ‘a vision’ that 10% of their services will include service user involvement by 2020 Matt Hancock has said that service user involvement will be financially incentivised Plus 3 more headlines here

Economic Service user involvement is said to be cost effective. (Kings fund) The new government may not be committed to service user involvement Service user involvement fund may be abolished Plus 2 more headlines

Social Complaints about the commissioning of services for Mental ill health and for Drug and Alcohol support are at a record level (Nuffield Trust 2017) JRF argue that people who use services are often the experts on their own support needs. Plus 3 more headlines

Technological Digital solutions can improve services by making them more efficient service users may not have this vision. Plus 4 more headlines

Political

Hackney CCG has stated it is committed to the vision that 10% of its services will involves service users in the commissioning and running of the organisations by next year, this was a commitment made in the CCG plan 7 years ago (2013) and yet still there are only a few organisations from health and care that are involving service users. The local council has had to consider its funding options carefully as funding has been reduced each year for the last 10 years (Hackney Budget 2016) it is argued by Beresford (2017) that the uncertainty about funding for social care has meant that councils, generally, have been focussed on cutting services to save money rather than taking action to involve service users in set up and running.

Second paragraph here about the second headline.

Social

The commissioning of services by the CCG has improved since the Health and Social Care Act of 2012. 2012 was when CCGS took over the funds from the health trusts to buy in services for the areas they served. Complaints though, are at a record level…

Technological

Write approximately 2 paragraphs linking back to headlines in the PEST table.

Economic

Write approximately 2 paragraphs linked to relevant headlines in the PEST table.

Recommendations

1. It is recommended that Hackney does/does not invest more of it’s funding into involving service users because ……

2. It is recommended that Hackney work with the health and wellbeing boards on …

Plus 3 more recommendations

NO CONCLUSION NEEDED

Overall Marking Guide Task Number

Skill Level

Actions carried out by student Maximum marks

Achievable 1) UN /AN The Learner defines and explains the use of a PEST

The Learner produces a comprehensive PEST (London based) The Learner discusses their PEST to assess viability of the expansion

10

20

30

4) EV/AP The Learner uses their findings from their PEST in suggesting appropriate recommendations for implementing the expansion.

30

Total marks available for content of assignment 90 6) Marks reserved for academic quality of assignment:

Student demonstrates competence in applying Harvard referencing. Student writes with a good flow and structure, with very few obvious spelling/grammatical errors.

10

Total marks available for the assignment 100

1. There are 60 marks available for the PEST description, table and paragraphs. For the student to be awarded for example 30 marks or

above, the student must include some research taken from the key resources such as the JSNA and must have linked a paragraph to two of the key points made in each section.

2. There are 30 marks available for the recommendations section. The recommendation must link back to the paragraphs.

3. There are 10 marks available for quality, for a higher mark the structure should be followed and the key research and reading referenced.