Course description
Transforming Services for Quality
This module aims to:
- Examine the current health and social care agenda
- Support you to exploreinnovative new ways of working and how these could potentially improve the quality of care received by patients, clients, carers and the public
- You will be enabled to reflect upon and justify the need for effective change management and implementation.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 6
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, youshould be able to:
- Demonstrate in depth knowledge and appreciation of the current healthcare agenda and its impact on health and social care provision.
- Critically evaluate, challenge and apply data and research evidence to innovative new ways of working related to the needs of a defined population/ specific area of practice.
- Critically evaluate and apply the principles of change to the process of innovation including opportunities to overcome resistance and barriers to change.
- Develop innovative approaches to patient care within your area of practice which utilise evidence (including user perspectives), create challenge and develop a progressive culture within the healthcare setting.
Training Course Content
Indicative modulecontent includes:
- Exploring the challenges for modern healthcare provision
- Identifying opportunities to improve quality
- The concept of quality from differing perspectives
- Innovation and service redesign in practice
- Analysis of barriers to change
- Negotiating, influencing and managing change.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Lectures (including e-lectures)
- Seminars
- Presentations
- Guided study
- E-learning.