Service Quality
Definition:
Analysis of last product or the results that a company or group delivers to your client is called as Service Quality. Quite simply we can define it as assessment between the conditions expectation and outcome of something or service.
It is employed to help make the ongoing changes in a healthcare facility to gain good services for our snooze home to fulfil the client needs.
In a clinic, service quality in a hospital is immediately proportional to reputation of the business of a healthcare facility. All the staff in a medical center must work together to provide a quality care and attention to the patient to provide them satisfactory care. We can see usually in many nursing homes patients be in queue to avoid this there must be a scheduled appointment system. There should be an associate in reception to attend them promptly. To make this possible the management must boost the medical staff in the hospital. Even the medical staff must work faster and make the works possible accurately with proper quality service.
It contains different dimensions and they are:
Tangibility, Trustworthiness, Responsiveness, Assurance and Empathy.
This dimension represents how consumers plan information about service quality in their intellects. This is logically lengthened to interior services as well. Sometimes customers use all the above sizes to determine service quality perceptions.
Tangibility: As services are tangible, customers develop their view of service quality by comparison of tangibility with service provided like physical facilities, equipment, and appearance of employees.
Reliability: These specify the power of providing the correct and trustworthy services provided by the business.
Responsiveness: This implies to provide services in time and determination to help customers.
Assurance: Employees knowledge and courtesy and their potential to inspire trust and confidence.
Empathy: Understanding and hypersensitive caring individualized attention directed at customers.
SERVQUAL:
It is a method used to the service quality in organization
There are 5 gaps which causes the changes in the service quality provided by the business.
So here are the explanation for these spaces.
Gap 1 - Management Difference:
This difference is see when the management is unable to fulfil the necessity to the residents/patients by not understanding their needs. Regarding to a good example, in a medical center doctor thinks to give a well planned treatment to the individual but the patient won't understand it and wait for the proper reactions from the staff of a healthcare facility. This situation can be viewed as as management space.
Solution: In order to avoid this above situation there must be proper communication between doctor and the individual. Once the treatment sheet done by the physician should explain the patient about the treatment they will provide and find out the patient's grievance regarding all the issues.
Gap 2 -Quality Difference:
In this gap management is aware of the needs of the patients however the neglect to provide those services which they had guaranteed.
For example, doctor ask nurse tell patient get ready for the medical check-up which should be done without eating but this wasn't up to date by the nurse to patient. This may led to having less knowledge and patient might not be fast.
Solution: To avoid this condition there must be proper guidance given to the patient by the staff so that they won't do any oversight.
Gap 3 -Delivery Gap:
This distance occurs because of the insufficient knowledge and the poor training to the personnel due to that they do not provide a quality health care to the patients.
For example, patient is looking forward to a ward in the crisis ward to have rest.
Solution: Administration/ management should follow-up the works to be achieved and discover that patient's get there needs done on time and appoint the skilled personnel.
Gap 4 - Client Gap:
This gap develops when the organization do not provide the facilities that happen to be promised or shown by them, in their broachers.
For example, in a medical center they provide/ show false facilities or description related to the hospital and services they provide.
Solution: To avoid this hospital should not provide any incorrect information and must fulfil the anticipations of the individual to deliver the product quality service.
Gap 5 - Future Space:
This gap explains the way the patient expects more service from a healthcare facility than they usually provide.
For example, sometime in a medical center nurse takes more time to know the details about the patient but due this other patient feel that they are simply been cared less.
Solution: In this example they patients must get proper guidance in order to understand the issues of patients which way they can beat patient's misunderstandings to provide proper service quality delivery.
Kanban concept
Toyota Production System developed the Kanban principle. This concept includes the arranging and the management of elements of system in hospital with the scheduled implementation of rules.
This concept points out the procedure of making in the hospital or any other group. The limit of products must be maintained to steer clear of the wastage. So there should be appropriate management and rules to improve the service quality to be provided.
Use of Kanban:
Kanban notion is very useful in the nursing homes to maintain the proper usage of the merchandise to provide what you need along with the sufficient amount of the materials on the time ok use.
In a medical center plenty of products are purchased from suppliers like chemicals, disinfection chemicals, medical instruments, medicines etc.
But in line with the Kanban strategy process the merchandise must be bought as per the necessity to stay away from the wastage or over stock. So in accordance to the label process must be adopted to ensure whether the products are properly used in a sufficient manner in a proper way.
For example, in a hospital products must be labelled with different shades on the bin of material which are used. By following this way of method make simpler to the staff to comprehend the stock and order it by detecting the colors.
So to reduce the wastage follow the concept and categories like:
TO DO IN PROCESSDONE
By using this categorization the works can be carried out quicker and time can be kept.
Lean Process
It is an activity which improves patient value by lowering waste products and time. It mainly concentrate on certain requirements of the individual by involving the staff and simultaneous improvement in the grade of service. Low fat process originated by Toyota motors which mainly helps for increasing the management by minimizing waste and improve quality.
Advantages through the use of Lean process in a health care organization:
- Must reduce unwanted cost and on the over stock where wastage of money can occur, avoiding this wastage can spend less for the business.
- Staff should not waste time and by making patients to wit in the reception.
- Staff must stop doing unnecessary works as this might save time plus they can learn new process etc.
- Quality of service can be increased by give quality service.
- Staff must dedicate their maximum time with patients so that they can know more about their medical condition and focus on their treatment.
- Unwanted wastes like expiry of products and personnel insurance must be reduced.
- Management must to steady improvements in the various departments of a healthcare facility. To make this change possible all the staff must interact.
Business Management Process:
This a kind of management which mainly concentrate on handling and use of process in the permanence of company.
There are 10 key points that assist in managing the business:
Continuity, Enablement, Holism, Institutionalization, Participation, Joint Understanding, Purpose, Convenience, Technology Appropriation Framework Awareness.
- Continuity:
A hospital or health care organization must use the latest technology as this might maximise the efficiency of work by improving the quality of service. But before consumption of the techniques management must give training to the personnel so that they can reduce the errors and know well how to use the instruments.
- Involvement:
This is the primary theory to be used in a healthcare facility as this may bring lot of changes in the organization. According to this principle regular appointment must be conducted affecting all the personnel (medical and non-medical) and regular feedback should be taken from the residents and focus on it to enhance the quality of service.
- Simplicity:
The acceleration of work by personnel must be increased in order to reduce the waiting time of the patients and enhance the quality of service.
- Purpose:
All the staff must have the ability to solve the problem of the individual and ensure that they get proper facilities promptly and avoid the wastage of your time.
- Joint Understanding:
There must not be any language hurdle between the staff and patient and personnel must now avoid the patient.
