Contents
1.0 Introduction 2
Task 01 2 1.1 Analyze Features of any Healthcare Organization which Encourages 2 1.2 Analyze Leadership and management styles that facilitate continuous improvement 3 1.3 Analyze features of a Learning Organization 4 1.4 Analyze approaches to introduce and embed changes within St Christopher’s Care Home 6 1.5 Analyze Approaches to Quality Improvement. 7
Task 02 9 2.1 Assess sources of information likely to identify opportunities 9 2.2 Analyze information to identify areas for improvement. 10 2.3 Assess the impact of proposed changes to organizational activities in St Christopher’s 11 2.4 Evaluate proposed changes to organizational activities 12
Task 03 13 3.1 Determine changes required to introduce improvements to organizational activities 13 3.2 Agree proposed changes with stakeholders St Christopher’s Care Home 13 3.3 Produce a plan for the proposed changes and communicate to stakeholders 14 3.4 Design systems and procedures to support the changes in St Christopher’s Care Home 15 3.5 Review the change process for St Christopher’s Care Home 16
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1.0 Introduction
This assignment is based on the one of the leading care home at the United Kingdom known as St Christopher’s Care home, leading Care home based in London aimed at providing skilled and kindhearted calming care services. The organization provides numerous health care services to their clients with allied team of health professionals whilst paying attention on the continuous improvement (www.stchristophers.org.uk).
Task 01
1.1 Analyze Features of any Healthcare Organization which Encourages and Allows Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement is an ongoing effort to improve products, services or processes. These efforts can seek “incremental” improvement over time or “breakthrough” improvement all at once
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