Project Management’s Place in Healthcare

Project management’s place in healthcare Bring your healthcare management issues and we can show you how to design a plan around it. This is project management. 

What is project management? 

In simple terms, it is a process for managing tasks from start to finish, giving yourself the best chance of delivering what you set out to, and to meet the expectations of all stakeholders.

What is project management’s place in healthcare? 

Project Management can be used in healthcare to:

• Resolve operational issues

• Implement policies that benefit patients

• Improve patient experience

• Resource allocation initiatives

• Improve communication between staff

Not all clinicians and leaders get an opportunity to be trained in functional project management. Certified training approaches can be lengthy, expensive and do not always translate to the health and social care working environment.

Come and learn how to

• Utilise General project management features and approaches: Prince2, Agile methodology, Gantt charts, risk matrix etc

• Initiation – set the purpose and scope, including cost estimates, assign a project manager – get approval.

  • set out in Project initiation document & get sign off from oversight group and group.

• Connect project to governance and reporting structures. Set reporting format and timescales to relevant groups for oversight.

• Set meeting timescales for project meetings with enough time inbetween to get work done.

• Planning – outline each task, establish deadlines, and assign resources: staff responsible for task completion, time & any £.

• Example templates

• Execution – implementing the agreed activities, project manager keeps project on track with any challenges requiring different ways of working, going back to the planning stage . providing status reports

• Online collaboration and project updates. Example online software: Share Excel via OneDrive, MS Teams, Miro, Monday.com

• Problem solving approaches e.g. 6 hat methodology