Proposal for a new clinic

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Hello all,

I'm currently working in a hospital with no proper podiatry facilities. :wacko:
I'm planning to write up a proposal to the hospital admin to open up a new podiatry clinic. However, I'm completely clueless on how to do this

I would appreciate your help in this. Any suggestions, links, websites...etc would be of great help.

 

You will need to write up a business case for them. Essentially a brief that shows an introduction/background, scope of the clinic, cost-benefit analysis, etc. (a pared down business plan that hits the highlights). Once you catch their interest with the business case, then they will want a more detailed plan with the evidence to back it up.

Hope that helps.......

 

The business case is of course the best plan, but approval no matter how well written is highly unlikely.

If you are rather inexperienced, or simply a realistic person, a simpler plan would be to get hold of the appropriate infection control nurse with a view to her opinion. If you do not have decent clinical facilities, I bet your cross infection risk assessment is fairly substantial.

In these times that is pretty much everything and the only criteria of importance if funding is going to be found for you.

 

Dubai

 

ehresources and esky365:

Thank you for your help. It's a government funded hospital and they are they are the one's who suggested me to write up this proposal to open up the clinic, so funding is not a problem, hence, writing a business case is irrelevent.

 

Hi Again,

Even in a public system, a business case is most defintiely relevant! You still need to present an argument of need within the community, the costs of the program and the benefits that will result. The basic difference is that you will not be required to show monetary profit but instead, savings to the system and benefits to the population i.e. increased productivity due to fewer days lost from work due to prevention vs. treatment, etc. I work in a mixed system where I write business cases for both for-profit and not-for-profit agencies. The format is essentially the same, it's only the content and 'angle' that is different.

J

 

I'd suggest you present some hospital statistics on the cost to the health system of treating diabetic foot ulcers/ amputations as inpatients as opposed to providing a preventaive service through your podiatry department.
Cheers,
Kara