• Must answer question 1: compulsory.
  • Must answer another two questions from questions 2,3,4 and 5: optional. •Answer three questions in total.

Tips•Read question properly.

  • Break question down into key parts.
  • Ensure you are answering what is being asked.
  • Be aware of grammar and spelling.
  • Be aware of sentence and paragraph construction.

Revision Strategies •Identify key subject areas from weekly sessions on Canvas.

  • Read around subject.
  • Use of diagrams.
  • Mind mapping.
  • Links to supporting evidence.

Questions

Question one

Clinical governance (also known as quality governance) is a system through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care. Critically evaluate the statement in relation to the topics covered in class

QuestionTwo

Critically evaluate the importance of teamwork in the management of patient care

Question Three

Critically debate the role that health psychology plays in the delivery of patient care

Question Four

Critically discuss the recent changes to the UK Governments healthcare policies and the impact they have on healthcare practice

Question Five

Critically debate the role that the patient journey (care pathway) plays in the delivery of patient care.

CRITERIAS TO FOLLOW IN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS.

NOTE; ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS IN TOTAL. NUMBER ONE WHICH IS COMPULSORY AND ANY TWO OTHER QUESTIONS. THIS ESSAY IS A 2000 WORDS ESSAY WITH NUMBER ONE WHICH IS THE COMPULSORY QUESTION CARRYING 1000 WORDS WHILE THE TWO OTHERS SHOULD CARRY 500 WORDS EACH. CITATION IS VERY IMPORTANT EACH STATEMENT OF PARAGRAPH MUST BE CITED USING THE HAVARD METHOD OF CITATION.

Question one

Clinical governance (also known as quality governance) is a system through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care.

1.Critically evaluate the statement in relation to the topics covered in class CRAP SLARC- R(reflection)!- 7pillars of clinical governance

Question Two

  • Critically evaluate the importance of teamwork in the management of patient care
  • One of the supporting structures of the pillars of CG
  • Collaborative working
  • Effective communication
  • Interpersonal education
  • Leading Change Adding value (2014)
  • Leadership
  • Patient-centred care through enhanced communication

Question Three

  • Critically debate the role that health psychology plays in the delivery of patient care
  • Shift from biomedical model
  • Epidemiology of deaths from preventable diseases/changing pattern of illness
  • Escalated cost of medical care
  • HHHU
  • Wilder determinants of health (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1991).
  • Healthcare Agendas changing: FYFV (2014), NMC code (work as trained- prevent illness), Leading Change Adding Value, Healthy lives, Healthy People (2010).
  • Cultural competence
  • The recognition that psychosocial processes impact on health
  • The evidence on the role of behaviour and emotion in morbidity and mortality
  • Increasing interest in being directed towards disease prevention
  • A current ideology is individualism- individuals are responsible for their own health.
  • Who becomes sick and who stays well?
  • Among the sick, who recovers and why?
  • How can illness be prevented or recovery be promoted?
  • The health Belief Model (Rosenstock, 1966).
  • Rotter’s (1996) Locus of Control•TTM (Prochaska and Diclemente, 1983)
  • The Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen and Fishbein, 1980).
  • CRITIQUE OF THESE MODELS

Question Four

  • Critically discuss the recent changes to the UK Governments healthcare policies and the impact they have on healthcare practice
  • FYFV (2014)
  • The 6 C’s (2012)
  • Leading Change Adding Value (2014)
  • Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (2010)
  • Essence of Care (2010).
  • No Decision about me without me (2012)
  • The responsibility Deal (2011)
  • Healthy lives, Healthy People (2010)

Question Five

  • Critically debate the role that the patient journey (care pathway) plays in the delivery of patient care.
  • A multidisciplinary tool to improve the quality and efficiency of evidence-based care
  • An integrated care pathway
  • The aim of a clinical/carepathway is to improve the quality of care,
  • reduce risks,
  • increase patient satisfaction and
  • increase the efficiency in the use of resources