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Assignment C checklist!

As usual, I have prepared a little checklist to guide you. If you can tick off all these points then you are ready to submit, so have you:

✅Provided a title to your reader which succinctly captures the topic and aim of the assignment

✅ Written a short introduction to tell the reader about the system/policy/practice, and type/s of organisation/s involved. Have you made it clear whether you are arguing that it is predominantly failing/succeeding or has both strengths and limitations? Lastly, have you foreshadowed the structure/main talking points of your paper in the last sentence, i.e. This paper will...

✅Ensured you have covered at least 3 reasons for failure or success. Do not spend all your words on one or two reasons. Try to give roughly equal attention to the factors. Many of you will already have identified these factors from the previous assignments.

✅Proposed feasible, actionable, and measurable solutions to the identified issues. different methods of evaluation you could employ.

✅ Recapped the main action points of the paper in the form of short recommendations.

✅Integrated at least 8-15 appropriate (e.g., peer-reviewed articles, government/ health organisation websites) sources to support your key talking points, though we would expect more for this size of paper.

✅Ensured you are under the 3000 words max inclusive of all citations. You can include figures/tables as images only where they add value and are explicitly referred to in the text.

✅Proofread to check for grammatical errors, good flow/structure, APA formatting and citing.

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Assignment Examples

Please bear in mind that some of those examples had 3500 words allowance and an abstract but otherwise content areas are the same. You have 3000 words all-inclusive and do not need an abstract.

Interconnecting assignments 2 and 3

· It's best to focus on either success or failure to enable depth of discussion. But you could still include aspects of success if discussing an overall "failure" and vice versa, for example, when discussing lessons learned or future vision. But in the case that it’s really not clear or there is an even balance between successes and failures then you can argue for both sides.

· Many of you have already alluded to the success/failure aspects of the system/policy or practice through your assignment 2 discussion so you can expand on those points.

Title

Please provide a title that informs the reader of the purpose of the paper and if you are discussing the success or failure of a specific healthcare system/policy/practice or taking a balanced view.

Introduction

Write a brief introduction to provide context to the chosen successful/failed healthcare system/policy/practice. Please feel free to incorporate some parts of the previous assignments in this unit and there is NO need for paraphrasing but please make sure to incorporate feedback if you receive such in assignment 2.

Key Criteria 1: Critically examine the components of the healthcare system/policy/practice to justify why it is/was a success or failure (up to 1200 words)

Success:

Examine the interconnected components in Assessment 2 and how this led to/contributed to success. You can discuss positive output/outcomes, strengths, and opportunities related to the healthcare system/policy/practice

Failure:

Examine the interconnected components in Assessment 2 and how this led to failure. You can discuss negative or unsuccessful output/outcomes, weaknesses, and threats related to the healthcare system/policy/practice

Questions to consider in determining success/failure include:

· Are the objectives and desired outcomes being delivered?

· Do we have the right quantity and quality of inputs?

· Are we able to properly deliver/provide the care/service?

Key Criteria 2: Future/vision of the healthcare system/policy/practice (up to 1200 words)

Success:

What lessons have been learned? How can we build on/expand/further improve and sustain the efficiency of the system/policy/practice, e.g., ensure continuous quality improvement? It’s not a requirement to use an established quality improvement model but it would certainly strengthen your argument.

You may account for any relevant socio-cultural, environmental, political, economic, and organizational factors.

Failure:

· Identify how to use any existing strengths/opportunities to improve and how to positively change the system/policy/practice to facilitate desired outputs and outcomes

· You could incorporate some elements of change management for improvement. Again It’s not a requirement but using an established change management model/theory/framework might help you to logically organize this e.g., plan, do, study/check, act (PDSA) is a frequently used framework.

For both successes or failures, you might like to compare to examples of related/relevant successful or failed programs/policies/systems from the national and international literature. What were their lessons learned and could they apply in your case?

For each lesson learned, it would be great to have a matching future direction i.e. a strategy to build on the success or change the failure. It may be possible though that a particular strategy can address multiple issues.

Recommendations

End the paper with a wrap-up of the main points and recommendations. These may be in bullet point form. Imagine your reader only reads these-it should be clear what the main issues and subsequent strategies for improvement are.

Academic integrity

Please check similarity reports and make sure there are no partial or whole sentences or chunks of text that are taken directly without proper paraphrasing. Similarities for some specific expressions (e.g., name of an organisation), or direct quotes (use sparingly) are fine as is any information taken from assignment 1 or 2.

Formatting and citing

Minimum of 15 references but would expect more for stronger arguments

You can include a table/figure as an image if necessary without impacting on word count

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RECOMMENDED WAY FORWARD FOR ASSIGNMENT C

Your Assignment B 2 was difficult because it was so broad and you could not then say anything meaningful. As I said some of your sections were simply descriptions - there was no critical review element. It is not just that things exist or work a certain way.

***For assignment C, you will need to be proposing around 3 major issues which you will then propose solutions for.

I recommended you look at the recent Report on General Practice within Medicare. I think this could be a good angle for you.

****This document already covers many of the key issues of the system and strategies to address so is perfect for assignment C ****

https://grattan.edu.au/report/a-new-medicare-strengthening-general-practice/

A new Medicare: Strengthening general practice

Medicare no longer works, for patients or GPs. The way GPs work and get paid should be overhauled so Australia can turn the tide of chronic disease.

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A note that you cannot just copy from this report. Of course you can cite it and use it to develop your ideas but then search for other relevant sources to expand on your arguments.

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