Prepare a strategic commissioning intentions plan for 2016 to 2018 for the London Borough of Southwark including priorities, target populations, intended outcomes and funding allocations.

Plan Objective: Prepare a strategic commissioning intentions plan for 2016 to 2018 for the London Borough of Southwark including priorities, target populations, intended outcomes and funding allocations.

MODULE AIMS
The module aims to:
• The module will enable students to explore a range of current approaches to strategic commissioning within the health care environment
Main topics of study:
• Use of JSNAs and HNAs to assess current and future trends and the demand for health and social care
• Developing the strategic approach to addressing health needs in a locality.
• Developing commissioning intentions and plans
• Creation and management of Strategic Partnerships
• Methods to monitor process variation in healthcare
• Commissioning frameworks – Acute, Primary and tertiary care
• Strategic fit with local and national policy and commissioning priorities
• Critical evaluation of commissioning plans
MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this Module, students will be able to:
Knowledge
1. Identify and select sources of information and data needed to write a commissioning strategic plan.
2. Select and implement appropriate analytical techniques in strategy and commissioning
Subject-based practical skills
3. Select appropriate approaches to developing a commissioning strategic plan
Thinking skills
4. Explore aspects of the commissioning process for healthcare in a locality
5. Critique commissioning intentions, identifying strengths and weaknesses in process and outcome measures.
Skills for life and work (general skills)
6. Prepare a strategic plan for the commissioning of services in a locality with a high Index of Multiple Deprivation.

How might the success of what you proposed be judged i,e,how to assess health improvements. Use the health domain structure in the Health Outcomes to think about your work.

  • What they’re doing.
  • What they are going to do.
  • And there plans for the future.

The second assessment expects you to use what you have researched and done in your community placement( NEWHAM FOREST GATE) and to place this in a policy context i.e. explain about the new public health structure and how it helps achieve better public health using what you have been doing to illustrate this,. You will be expected to show the relevance of the work that you did. Here you will need to show the context of the work that you did using local data i.e. how relevant was the topic that you worked on. Most worked in the local neighbourhood centres so here local health profile data is relevant. A few teams worked at borough level and so a broader picture is needed. How might your work – if continue – improve the health of local people?

  • Public Health Observatories – Search Results
  • Hub Data from 2014 – with borough comparison
  • Public Health Observatories – Training Video or just go to local health profiles below
  • Public Health Profiles at borough level
  • Plaistow Community Neighbourhood – not just Plaistow
  • You have access to the first few report – useful
  • Local Health Profiles – search on Newham and select your area

For the final link above you must be using a PC and microsoft OS

You will also be expected to review and evaluate the “new” public health framework. For example does the “new” public health policy and structure allow a better understanding of local health needs? Is public health now better able to help local health needs? You will have talked to health leaders, centre managers, community representatives, Healthwatch, civic leaders and (perhaps even a local health champion) about the health needs of the area in which you were based (or for some team the topic that you investigate). You can include this local research. This assessment allows you to review your placement work and requires you to place your work in a policy framework e.g. reviewing and evaluating the “new” public health role of local councils.

How might the success of what you proposed be judged i,e,how to assess health improvements. Use the health domain structure in the Health Outcomes to think about your work.

Mention also the “Joint Strategic Needs Assessment” (JSNA). Use relevant aspects of JSNA in your answer.

Extra material can be placed in appendixes and referred to in your assessment answer.

Discuss your findings from the evidence gathered. Limitations can encompass: Many studies measured multiple outcomes

DISCUSSION

– Discuss your findings from the evidence gathered. Limitations can encompass: Many studies measured multiple outcomes

– Although all reported positive changes, there may be type I error.

– Student self-reports were more likely to change than other outcome measures.

– Was this particularly true for studies without active control?

– Variable delivery length and expertise

– Group level effects and

Publication bias.

– Make a conclusion based on your findings.

– What is the overall answer to the question? What did your review show?

– Consider the strength (both numerical and methodological) of the evidence

– Consider limitations, including publication and related biases

Consider implications for theory/practice and for future research

Analysis of the ethico-legal issues and conflicts inherent in the case study.

For a Law subject in Health, case study based on the files attached with assessment description and the case study itself.

You will be provided with a case study, and drawing on the content of this unit, the literature and professional codes and standards, you will need to critically analyse the case study.

Your discussion should include:

  • An identification and analysis of the ethico-legal issues and conflicts inherent in the case study. · An identification of the actions of health workers that have ethico-legal consequences. · An application and evaluation of ethico-legal principles to decisions made by health workers in the case study, including the consequences of those decisions. · A discussion of negotiated outcomes and an exploration of alternative pathways to resolution.