Executive Brief: Proposal of a New Economic Opportunity NHS FPX 6008 Assessment 1 Proposing a New Initiative

The role and function of Raulerson Hospital, like all other medical institutions, is to provide quality healthcare for patients. A factor
that plays a part in the quality of the healthcare experience is the creation of separate departments for various healthcare services.
Different hospitals have separate cardiac departments, liver centres, and urology centres etcetera. The healthcare services at
Raulerson Hospital would be significantly improved if a specific Diabetes Care Unit is introduced within the premises. A diabetes
clinic is where the patients can meet experts to discuss and treat their condition viz. diabetes (Uk, n.d.). A diabetes center would
serve well to help people check their blood sugar levels while simultaneously giving them a place to get in touch with specialists. An
annexed diabetes care unit would help centralize the experts and specialists in one place, where they will be easily accessible and
reachable by the patients. The reason why someone would choose to go to an actual specialist instead of their usual doctor or GP
is the amount of knowledge the former would have about their condition (Uk, n.d.).

Raulerson Hospital is located in Okeechobee, which has a population of 5,724 according to the 2019 census. In 2019, the total
prevalence of diabetes worldwide was seen to be 9.3% (Saeedi et al., 2019). Going by that rate, it can be seen that around 530
people are diabetic in a city with a population of 5,724 people. Diabetes needs constant care and consultation, which leads us to
understand that it can be highly useful for a specific department/clinic to be introduced in the complex.