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Project Design >> Designing the key features of your project
e. Additional design tips
1. Explore potential funding sources
2. Understand your care system
1. Explore potential funding sources
Regardless of project scope, there are likely to be some costs associated with a better practice project, for example:
- costs associated with the development of information systems; and
- payment to consumers for out-of-pocket expenses.
Before limiting your project scope due to potential costs, it is worth exploring feasible funding sources. The following organisations may offer monies for specific projects:
- Your workplace (which may have designated funds to support better-practice initiatives);
- Federal and state government agencies;
- Universities; and
- Non-government organisations.
Some funding sources will be particularly interested in projects that involve a partnership with consumers.
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Your professional organisation may be able to suggest a number of alternative funding sources. |
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Obtaining funds to support your project increases the
range of activities you can consider in project design.
If sufficient funds are available, it may even be possible
to employ a project officer who can relieve hard-pressed
clinicians of the burden of coordinating project activities
and providing logistical support.
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2. Understand your care system
Developing a detailed understanding of your care system early in the design phase can assist in identifying:
- The key participants you will need to engage because their cooperation will be vital to the achievement of project objectives.
- The different places within the system where members of your patient cohort may be located.
- Potential opportunities for practice improvement that come from stepping outside your own sphere of operation and considering the bigger picture.
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Consulting with consumers or patients can assist in developing a �patient picture�
of the care system, which may differ from the provider's view. Process mapping can be useful
in developing a detailed understanding of your care system. It involves plotting, from the
patients� perspective, their journey through the care system, from the point of entry into the system through to the exit point. |
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A brief introduction to process mapping as a way of understanding a care system, and designing
interventions to improve that system, is contained in:
Improvement Leaders� Guide to Process Mapping, Analysis and Redesign,
NHS Modernisation Agency 2002,
 www.modern.nhs.uk/improvementguides |
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