Influence of Strategic Resource Allocation by Laikipia County Government on Service Delivery in Level 3 and 4 Public Health Facilities
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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the influence strategic resource allocation by Laikipia county government on service delivery in level 3 and 4 public health facilities.
Methodology: The target population comprised of a sample of 74 medical practitioners. The respondents were doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, radiologists, teaching staff and administration staff. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Primary data was collected through questionnaires. Simple random sampling technique was used in guiding the selection of the study sample. A pilot study was conducted in 10 percent of the study sample from Naivasha County. Before administering the instruments, they were subjected to validity checks and reliability tests. Data analysis was done using tools in the SPSS version 25. Analysis involved computation of descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and inferential statistics such as Pearson Correlation and regression analysis. The data was then presented in tables and narrations.
Results: The study established that the connection between the strategic resource allocation services and service delivery was statistically positive and significant hence the model can be used to predict the results of level 3 and 4 public health facilities in Laikipia county. It had an R value of .851 and an R square value of .723. Explained further it indicated that strategic resource allocation model forecasted 72.3% change on service delivery. Strategic resource allocation had a β=.324, P=449.
Unique contribution to theory, policy and practice: Though there were resources enough to obtain various medical supplies, there was a gap in ensuring that departments got all the requirements they were in need of. The study discovered that mis-balance between departments getting required resources in which they are dispensed to. The study recommended that there should be clear resource tracking within the departments. There should be easy and less bureaucratic replenishing of the resources since these departments have generated them. There should be policies put into place to factor in quick, reliable and quality replenishing within various departments of hospitals.
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