Business Case for Quality Improvement Initiative in Health Services

Course learning outcomes covered

LO 1. Critically analyse clinical leadership and clinical governance issues in risk management and quality principles and systems within health services.

LO 2. Critically review the political forces and barriers characteristic of the health care environment in order to propose how change in a selected health setting may be managed

The readings and resources provided on the online site relating to clinical governance and quality will assist you with this assessment. However you need to access peer reviewed academic literature to support your essay.

Please follow the Business Case template to write your business case.

This is the second assessment for this course, in which you need to write a Business Case and develop a presentation. The presentation will be shared with other students in the course. Please pay attention to the learning outcomes this assessment covers.

Background to this assessment

You have identified a health related quality improvement initiative, and have been invited to present your plan for this in the form of a PowerPoint presentation to the Executive Management Team’s weekly meeting. Your time allocated is no more than 20 minutes and in that time you need to convince them to approve and fund your chosen quality improvement proposal. To achieve this you must create and write:

• A written business case
• A PowerPoint with voice over.

Your writing needs to show critical discussion and analysis, not simply descriptive writing. If you have not already done so, please access the information about grading rubrics as well as the information about “writing styles” on the online site.

• APA 7^thEdition referencing is required, and you are expected to utilise academic literature to inform your reasoning for all aspects of this assessment. Ensure that you are familiar with the information on the grading rubric when developing your essay.

Please note You must email the course coordinator about your choice of topic before commencing this assessment.

Identify an area in your health environment that requires improvement, and provide a critical analysis of where it presently deviates from the best service that could be offered to improve patient outcomes.

Write a business case that you have formulated for the quality improvement change. This business case will also incorporate a brief outline of financial implications and cost analysis for the improvement initiative.

In the Business Case you will critically discuss issues pertinent in addressing the proposed change, such as (but not confined to) political forces and barriers to better access to health service for consumers, workforce factors, quality and risk management. The business case will also incorporate a brief outline of financial implications and cost analysis for the improvement initiative.

Presentation:

Prepare and present an online PowerPoint presentation with voice-over based on your Business Case.

Time allocation for presentation: 20 minutes

Presentation guidelines have been provided online for you, but in your presentation, you should share the main points of the information in your Business Case – however please do not write the whole Business Case onto the slides.

Provide constructive written feedback to the presentations of other students.

Post your feedback comments in the forum under Assessment 2.