92295 Advanced Health Service Planning

Question:

First critical step in health service planning where questions are more valuable than answers – questioning is the critical tool that guides effective planning and direction setting.

• The first broad question we should ask is Progress or Pessimism - how should we think about the future of healthcare?

• Sky-is-falling thinking is harmful, however we can’t let optimistic ideology trump sober science or cause us to turn away from the potential magnitude of a problem.

• Unpredictable forces may knock health service planning off course, so this means they must be resilient and adaptable - sleepwalking into the future is not an option!

Best Case Scenarios?

Human Diagnosis Project - create the world's open medical intelligence system, a "collective intelligence" that can produce vastly improved diagnostic accuracy. Combines the knowledge of multiple medical professionals and artificial intelligence.

Gene editing technology known as CRISPR improves genetic makeup by removing flaws and awakening dormant traits.

‘Molly’ - world’s first virtual nurse with a pleasant voice to help people with chronic illness monitor their condition and treatment. Voice recognition and deep empathy are key factors. It connects with electronic monitoring equipment

When you engage in critical writing through sound analysis you are developing your own academic voice and understanding in the subject. With descriptive writing you are not developing argument but merely setting the background within which an argument can be developed. Descriptive writing represents the situation as it stands, without presenting any analysis. In providing only description, you are presenting but not transforming information;

you are reporting ideas but not taking them forward in any way. An analysis assesses options by looking at their strengths and weaknesses and developing arguments that allow valid judgements to be made.

With critical analysis you are participating in the academic debate. This is more challenging. You need to weigh up the evidence and arguments of others. You will need to:

· consider the quality of the evidence and argument you have read;

· identify key positive and negative aspects you can comment on;

· assess their relevance and usefulness to the debate that you are engaging in for your assignment;

· identify how best they can be woven into the argument that you are developing.