NHS HOSPITAL

NHS Hospital



Table of Contents

Introduction1

The Royal Marsden Hospital1

Operational Areas1

Quality management2

Resource Planning5

Supply Chain Management6

Inventory Control7

Capacity Planning8

Service Design10

Competitive Advantage10

Key Areas for Competitive Advantage11

Areas of improvement13

Flexibility and Competitive Advantage15

Role of Knowledge Management17

Ethical Concern17

Conclusion18

NHS Hospital

Introduction

In health care, operation management theme clearly reflects the importance not only with the competencies from the studies and research, but also in spreading the reality of the hospital practice. Operation management is a wide discipline, which deals with the management of hospital functions effectively. The concept of operation management introduces the relationship between the strategic planning processes and key elements of the hospital and healthcare management. The second school emphasizes the integrated structure for natural phenomena that creates hospital dimension with characteristics, which cannot be derived from parts. Despite, hospital management must focus on all items properties and not information and communication technologies in the field only and to enhance their capacity to provide knowledge that achieves competitive advantage.

The Royal Marsden Hospital

The Royal Marsden is a world-leading cancer centre specialising in diagnosis, treatment, care, education and research.

Operational Areas

It is believed that NHS hospital in this Royal Marsden Hospital continued to face problems associated with malfunctioning originated from the operation, tools and its implications to invest in research and development. Based on the foregoing, our evolving research comes to study the impact of the relationship between Royal Marsden Hospital operational dimensions and technological operation, which deal with operation management in the hospital (Wu, 2001, p. 42).

Despite the recognition of studies on the importance of distinguishing between operation management dimensions and technological information tools, there is no clear idea about how to continue a relationship for both axes on operation management in Royal Marsden Hospital. Moreover, the time itself cannot assess implicit aspects of the question of the relationship between the impacts on knowledge operations management. Operational planning in Royal Marsden Hospital deals with taking into account trends analysis, hospital mission, philosophy and policies and methods of achieving goals requires senior management and other doctors to strengthen their knowledge and provide information hospital, as well as the need for experienced personal and professional manner to see the future and avoid future obstacles.

Quality management

The Royal Marsden Hospital focuses on commitment to continuous improvement. It should be well known at individual, personnel and departmental level. The main emphasis should be based on teamwork thereby establishing the value of the team in resolving difficulties, in task accomplishment, through individual initiative of all team members (Beach, 2000, p. 7)Health care staff at all levels should be functional in the hospital, and their strong commitment should enable any firm to achieve its goals and apply its programs. On the other hand, top management commitment is for doctors to accept quality responsibility, for them to be involved in its programs in order to plan and participate in evaluating programs and to persuade health care assistants to understand that quality management is an on-going process. In this regard, the quality department must have the authority and autonomy to apply its programs to obtain qualified and quality staff for ...