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Examining <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Strategic Objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Implementing KM in<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nati<strong>on</strong>al Health Service (NHS) {Medway NHS and<br />

Medway Community Healthcare (MCH)}<br />

Isaac Enakimio and Abdallah Al-Shawabkeh<br />

University <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Greenwich, L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>, UK<br />

isaac.enakimio@gmail.com<br />

aa14@gre.ac.uk,<br />

Abstract: In May 2010, following <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> electi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> new coaliti<strong>on</strong> government <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>re were str<strong>on</strong>g signals <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

change. These changes in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> form <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> job cuts, pay freezes and organisati<strong>on</strong>al restructuring are c<strong>on</strong>stantly<br />

changing <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> shape <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> ec<strong>on</strong>omic sector <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> UK. The most affected sector is <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> public sector and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> top <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

that list is <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nati<strong>on</strong>al Health Service (NHS). The first two radical changes have been <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> aboliti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Primary<br />

Care Trusts (PCTs) and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> introducti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> new General Practiti<strong>on</strong>ers (GP) c<strong>on</strong>sortia which is a Clinician led<br />

group that will assume <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> resp<strong>on</strong>sibility for healthcare needs and should fully be in place by 2013. Despite <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>se<br />

radical organisati<strong>on</strong>al changes, two issues have remained c<strong>on</strong>stant;<br />

1. The objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> GP c<strong>on</strong>sortium and Community Healthcare services (i.e. Providers) this is to support<br />

patients better.<br />

2. The need for <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> implementati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> KM in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nati<strong>on</strong>al Health Service and even bey<strong>on</strong>d.<br />

In <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Health Service Journal (HSJ), Ford (2010) quoted an unnamed chief executive pi<strong>on</strong>eering <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> GP<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sortium idea as saying “Handing commissi<strong>on</strong>ing c<strong>on</strong>trol to clinicians but maintaining primary care trusts to<br />

support <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m would be <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> “dream ticket”, ra<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r than aboliti<strong>on</strong>...” which is currently <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> case. This highlights <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

issue <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> managing knowledge within <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> NHS because a knowledge retaining system would help maintain<br />

stability in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> provisi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> patient care through <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> transiti<strong>on</strong> and bey<strong>on</strong>d. The earlier paper titled “The Status <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

<strong>Knowledge</strong> Management (KM) in Medway Primary Care Trust <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nati<strong>on</strong>al Health Service (NHS)” (Enakimio,<br />

Al-Shawabeh, and Sharp, 2010) gives an inside knowledge <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> organisati<strong>on</strong>, how it fits into <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> overall plan for<br />

KM in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> NHS as well as <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> current status <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> KM in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> organisati<strong>on</strong>. The paper dealt with <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> capability <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

<strong>Knowledge</strong> Management (KM) to assist <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> NHS in meeting its strategic objective <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> supporting patients better<br />

within <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Medway community. However, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> focus for this paper is examining <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> strategic objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

implementing KM in NHS Medway (Commissi<strong>on</strong>ers) and Medway Community Healthcare (Providers) and<br />

c<strong>on</strong>tinues from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> earlier paper. The data collected from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> earlier survey which was c<strong>on</strong>ducted in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> different<br />

locati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> trust such as <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> hospices, hospitals, healthy living centres, <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>fices and clinics, was analysed<br />

using SPSS 16 to explore <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> challenges <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> implementing KM in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> NHS to meet its strategic objectives. The<br />

aim <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this paper is to examine <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> strategic objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> implementing KM in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> NHS and show <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> correlati<strong>on</strong><br />

between KM and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> strategic objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this organisati<strong>on</strong>. This paper provides a real example <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> possible<br />

strategies for implementing KM within Medway PCT, and evaluates how <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>se strategies could impact <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

organisati<strong>on</strong> and improve its performance.<br />

Keywords: <strong>Knowledge</strong> Management (KM), Nati<strong>on</strong>al Health Service (NHS) Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT),<br />

Strategic Health Authority (SHA), General Practiti<strong>on</strong>er (GP) and Informati<strong>on</strong> Technology (IT)<br />

1. Introducti<strong>on</strong><br />

The organisati<strong>on</strong> had previously carried out a number <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> self-assessments, which recorded a general<br />

state <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> KM underperformance across <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> whole organisati<strong>on</strong> and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> need to work <strong>on</strong> getting a KM<br />

soluti<strong>on</strong> in place. Based <strong>on</strong> this evaluati<strong>on</strong>, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> challenge became <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> definiti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a suitable approach<br />

to implement KM in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> organisati<strong>on</strong> and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> realisati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Strategic Health Authority’s (SHA)<br />

objectives for <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> implementati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

In order to achieve this, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> researcher set out to analyse <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> impact <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> KM <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> SHA given<br />

objectives by understanding <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> three CSF groups i.e. People and Culture,<br />

Processes, Informati<strong>on</strong> Technology in supporting KM in Medway PCT.<br />

The study attempted to answer <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> following questi<strong>on</strong>s:<br />

Q1 - What is <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> overall correlati<strong>on</strong> between KM and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Strategic Objectives for Medway PCT?<br />

Q1.1 What is <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> correlati<strong>on</strong> between ‘People & Culture’ factor and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Strategic<br />

Objectives for Medway PCT?<br />

Q1.2 What is <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> correlati<strong>on</strong> between ‘Processes’ factor and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Strategic Objective for<br />

Medway PCT?<br />

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