Assessment 1: Planning in Health and Social Care Start Assignment

Intent
The assessment focusses on your understanding of the goals, principles and approaches to health planning by reflecting on your experience or observation of a planning process.

Objective
This assessment task addresses these subject learning objectives:

  • A. Evaluate local circumstances and use evidence based health planning principles, frameworks and processes.
  • B. Identify and assess community health status, demographics and social conditions that impact health
  • C. Determine the issues impacting health planning and health plan evaluation, including enabling and impeding factors.

Formatting requirements
In your submission, apply 12-point font size and double-spaced paragraphs. Ensure the document you upload is easily legible and has been spell checked and proofread before submission. Please ensure your reference list is accurate and complete.

Referencing
In-text citations are not required, but a reference list should be submitted at the end of the document with APA 7th formatting applied. A minimum of five (5) quality references should be included.

Task
Think about your current role in health or social care and any involvement you have had in planning, whether you were involved in the planning process or subject to the plan. It can be of any scale or scope. Drawing on the concepts from Module 1, reflect on your experience or observations.

If you have not experienced health planning in the course of your work (I am a Registered Nurse) you can use an example from the media or in your community e.g. planning a new health facility or service. Write a short essay:

Briefly describe the example of planning you are using, and the types of activities and resources involved.
What was the goal(s) of the planning process in terms of improving health? How do you think ‘health’ defined and needs identified (if at all)?
Which of planning principles guided the process and how was that demonstrated? Did any dominate the process?
Reflect on the challenges involved in the planning process and what could have been done better. What alternative activities and information could have been considered?