HCM6004: Health Analytics and Planning
Analysis Briefing Paper
Assignment Overview
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Health Analytics and Planning assignment. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.
Word Count: 2000 words
Weighting: 100%
Pass Mark: 40%
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
- Analyse data to improve health and social services and demonstrate extreme-racing key knowledge of how service performance is measured within existing quality frameworks.
- Evaluate and apply key concepts of health analytics to generate actionable insight that will drive evidence-based decision making.
- Identify challenges to be able to anticipate, plan for and manage data analytics initiatives.
- Evaluate and analyse the key digital skills and technologies necessary to perform data analytics.
Graduate Attribute: Effective Communication
Students will communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, using a range of media widely used in relevant professional context. They will be IT, digitally and information literate.
Assignment Task
Compile an analysis briefing paper, whereby you have identified a health or social care system based quantitative enquiry; gathered, manipulated, and analysed publicly available data to evidence and understand the enquiry at hand; and in conclusion present an evidence based, data driven solution suggestion.
At this level of study, your ability to present complex information succinctly and communicate complex information clearly, will be assessed. You should take responsibility to identify the enquiry and the direction of your work yourself.
Formatting Requirements
Your briefing paper should be formatted as you wish in a Word document, i.e. portrait or landscape orientation and with boxes/images/columns as desired. All images and/or figures must be referenced, as extreme-racing well as data and literature sources as usual. You should embed your excel data files within this one submission.
You will be assessed on:
- your definition of the enquiry to be addressed within the health and social care system and your ability to discuss the context of addressing this problem (policies, dynamics in other related areas, etc.) (approx.600 words)
- your critical review and choice of appropriate data sources and the extent to which they fit the enquiry (approx.300 words)
- your demonstration of data extraction and analysis techniques
- your discussion around the extent to which the analysis and outputs address the initial question (approx.600 words)
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- your ability to present complex information succinctly
- your presentation
- your referencing and supporting information
Formative Feedback
You have the opportunity to submit a draft plan of your analysis, including data and up to 500 words, to receive formative feedback.
The feedback is designed to help you develop areas of your work and it helps you develop your skills as an independent learner.
If you are a distance learning student, you should submit your work, by email, to your tutor, no later than 2 weeks before the actual submission deadline.
(2000 words)
(100 marks)
(LOs: 1, 2, 3, 4 & GA)
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