Assessment: Assignment 5
Type: Final project – week 15 – Development of a business case of selected topic – K1, S1, S2, AR1
Format: Final Project submission and oral presentation
Summary of assignment This assignment builds on the scoping review of literature assignment. The final project comprises 2 parts. Part A (assignment 2) is the introduction and scoping review section. Part B is the business case section. You are required to develop a business case based on aspects of your scoping review topic by proposing evidence-based interventions related to implementation of findings from your scoping review that will achieve one or more of the following in hospital settings; (1) cost reduction; (2) high quality patient outcomes (3) Responsiveness to consumer expectations of health care/improved patient loyalty; (4) sustainability – financial, environmental and efficient healthcare services. E.g. read:
https://www.amga.org/wcm/Membership/Councils/QI/MO/DocShare/Diabetes%20Business%20Case%20HP.pdf
For example, a 2017 article on social prescribing by clinicians in the UK national health service found little evidence of its effectiveness or value for money https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/7/4/e013384.full.pdf . Perhaps more recent literature review might reveal evidence of effectiveness or value for money, on which a business case for social prescribing by hospital clinicians in UAE may be built. Other interesting examples include the business case for better hospital design: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/SadleretalFableHospitalBusinessCase_HastingsJan111.pdf and telemedicine: https://praxes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/business-case-for-telemedicine.pdf It is highly desirable, but not essential that your business case includes an audit, pilot research project or service evaluation project undertaken within a UAE hospital to demonstrate the feasibility or utility of your business case.
Total Marks: 40. Comprises 35 marks for Word document submission and 5 marks for oral presentation.
Matrix for assessment of oral presentation – maximum five minutes presentation, total of no more than 12 slides.
Factual content and relevance of slides and presentation to the assignment topic – 2.5 marks;
presentation style, time discipline – 1.5 marks,
quality of presentation style and appropriateness of slide design features – 1 mark.
Matrix for assessment of part B of written submission:
(a) Background
(b) current service provision and its limitations;
(c) business case proposal and evidence base – how does the proposal improve on current service provision with regards to;
(1) cost reduction;
(2) high quality patient outcomes
(3) Responsiveness to consumer expectations of health care/improved patient loyalty and/or;
(4) sustainability – financial, environmental and efficient healthcare services.
Your business case should relate to at least 2 of the four variables.