AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A WELL MAN CLINIC | BUSINESS PROJECT FOR DIPLOMA IN PRACTICE MANAGEMENT | | IMPROVING THE SERVICES TO PATIENTS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE UNIT | | SGT EMILY LEWIS-GARWOOD RAMC | 5/5/2009 | |

Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 TERMS OF REFERENCE 4 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 5 Summary 6 Introduction 7 Present Situation 11 METHODOLOGY 14 PESTLE Analysis 18 PESTLE Analysis 20 SWOT Analysis 22 Options for Implementation 23 Cost Benefit Analysis 27 CONCLUSION 28 RECOMMENDATIONS 29 BIBLIOGRAPHY 30

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Lt Col J Taylor, Senior Medical Officer and Liz Thurley RGN for their time and

sympathetic help in providing answers to my many …show more content…

Lifestyle Issues

Men are often better at looking after their physical wellbeing than their emotional and

mental wellbeing. Many thrive on stress and cannot work well unless they have

deadlines to meet or more than one job on the go.

* Stress management

* Relationship matters

* Risk taking

* Anger Management

* Alcohol

* Diet

Physiological Concerns

* Cardiovascular issues including blood pressure and cholesterol.

* Cancer especially prostate and bowel.

* Injuries sustained through work, sport and traffic.

* Sexual health and awareness

‘If you compare all the major killers such as heart disease and lung cancer, men easily

come out the best, from the undertakers’ point of view’ Dr Ian Banks, President,

Men’s Health Forum

‘Exercise: If you are healthy you don’t need it; if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it’

Henry Ford, motor manufacturer

Within an Army setting, it has long been recognised there is a need for health

promotion alongside traditional medicine within a General Practice environment.

Soldiers are notoriously poor at recognising the need to take responsibility for their

own health so require education and their commanders need to be setting examples.

The Army Medical Services (AMS) has two distinctive roles:

1. Provision of advice to the chain of command on health promotion and

matters concerning medical support