Financial Strategies in Clinical Settings

• As a health care provider, describe how income flows into the organisation of your choice (e.g. hospital, community or a Private company).

• Evaluate the steps you would take when reviewing the skill mix in the clinical setting of your choice. Discuss how you might balance the financial implications of your actions?
• You are required to develop a system which would enable you to audit your staffing expenditure on a monthly basis. Offer detailed discussion of your rationale underpinning your system.
• You are required to give a detailed discussion how you would audit non-staff expenditure on a monthly basis in a clinical setting of your choice. What reasonable cost effective strategy would you implement in order to maintain best practice?
• You are required to describe in detail essential information which would enable you to successfully manage your staff and non-staff budget. From your earlier information (Questions 1 – 4), what do you consider to be key issues in terms of successful management?

Marking Criteria – Guidelines

• When completing assignments please refer to the specific learning outcomes for the assignment and check your work against the marking grid as you will be assessed on this!!

• Assignments to be word processed, it is up to individual the style of the characters, but 12 font should be used

• Spacing is usually 1.5 lines. You should take into account legibility and presentation

• Word limit to be adhered to with 10% lea way on either side, note of word count to be on front of assignment

• This workbook should be submitted to Turnitin by the date and time given.

• There will be a penalty for any work submitted after the given date and time

Marking Criteria – Referencing

• A method of referencing to be used consistently

• All sources to be acknowledged and when quoting, inverted commas must be used and page no. of reference (or web site) must be given

• All references to be cited in reference list, only one list is necessary