Case Study Assignment Task
The 3000 word case study will need to be submitted in two parts. Students will submit Part 1 of their assignment by answering Q1 and Q2 in the case study below by no
later than the deadline of: 1st May 2017 (13:59pm). Students will also be required to submit Part 2 of their assignment by answering Q3 and Q4 by no later than the
deadline of: 2nd June 2017 (13:59pm).
Case Study
Community Hospital Foundation Trust (CHFT)
The Context and Situation Analysis
Community Hospital Foundation Trust (CHFT) operates within a local health economy. The demands upon its services well exceed CHFT ability and capacity to meet such
demands in terms of existing staff support and other financial resources.
A consequence of this has been reports in the local media of ambulances waiting for long periods outside the hospital unable to receive patients, and patients waiting
on trolleys in the hospitals corridors.
As part of an ongoing audit of their service users (past, present and likely future), the report confirmed that an increasing number of attendees were frail elderly
people with multiple health conditions who in many cases had also experienced falls within their home. It was also found that there was an increasing number of
incidents of young people attending the hospital on Friday nights and weekends. These were arriving with injuries from fights induced by alcohol and drugs, and had
diverted staff time and resources away from other patients.