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  • Duration: 2-5 days
  • 2 Day course fees:
    - Doctors £395
    - Nurses & AHPs £300
  • 5 Day course fees:
    -     Doctors £988
    -     Nurses & AHPs £750
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This module consists of two inter-related two-day courses:

  • Data-driven service development in Child Health: A toolkit for the future; and
  • Quality Improvement and change in Paediatrics: Let’s make a difference

This is followed by a 5th day which focuses on critical analysis and the development of a quality improvement project. 

Created to address the training recommendations of a number of high profile reports (including Kennedy, Berwick, Francis, Keogh) on children’s and wider NHS services, this pair of courses equips you with knowledge and skills to enhance your understanding of the way in which the NHS and other organisations are structured and how you can play a part in improving quality and service re- design.

The module includes components on the history and context of the NHS, on health inequalities and on health indicators. It also examines how leadership, collaboration and networked healthcare can impact on the quality of care provided. The module explores the use of innovation and quality improvement to develop services, whilst appropriately managing resources. Learners will experience strategies to facilitate and then evaluate the impact of change using appropriate examples from their settings and practices. Throughout the whole module these concepts will be underpinned by multi-professional working, a focus on how routine collected statistics and survey data can be presented and used to enhance safety and quality and strategies to gain feedback and learning from a wide range of sources.

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  • To foster an appreciation of  how routine data is collected, collated and displayed in the NHS and Europe
  • To help develop skills in data interpretation and usage for improving quality and service design
  • To explore the system-wide influences on organising and delivering high quality healthcare for children and young people.
  • To demonstrate how student’s own individual behaviours, and those of the teams within which they work can have a significant influence on the quality of care delivered.
  • To explore the role of clinical leadership and quality improvement in shaping the organisation and delivery of high quality care 

This course will benefit paediatricians, GPs, nurses, therapists, managers and other healthcare professionals involved in Paediatrics and Child Health.

As the course is a multi-professional programme, students will develop an understanding of how their own individual behaviours, and those of the teams within which they work, can have a significant influence on the quality of care delivered.

The content covered will include:

Days 1 & 2:  Data-driven service development in Child Health: A toolkit for the future

  • Data and information sources and uses
  • Health inequalities and how to tackle these in practice
  • History of NHS and information services

Days 3 & 4:  Quality Improvement and change in Paediatrics: Let’s make a difference

  • Quality Improvement (QI) and change
  • Medical engagement and team cultures
  • Personal leadership development, including participation in a leadership simulation

Day 5 (if days 1-4 attended; cannot be booked in isolation):

  • Critical analysis skills
  • Group work on potential assignment projects

Talks, small group work focusing on quality improvement work and 12 hours of tutorials/workshops to facilitate understanding and knowledge of the module topics. In addition to the contact teaching hours, course delegates will have access to guided self-study online in Blackboard VLE (this will include quizzes, interactive clinical scenarios, critical appraisal exercises, group work, reading and research, etc.) to reinforce their understanding and knowledge.

Participants will be able to:

  • understand how self-awareness and valuing the perspective of others are key elements in delivering high quality multi-professional care for patients
  • describe the wider context of the NHS and the healthcare system in the UK, and to understand the relevance of that wider context to individual patients
  • understand the importance of data, benchmarking and the role of information in driving quality in healthcare
  • understand and begin to apply basic quality improvement methodologies to clinical practice

Participants have the option of completing an assessment component and on completion will be provided with an official Imperial College London transcript of results. Details of the assessment and deadline for submission will be given during the course. Please note that there is an additional assessment fee payable in full prior to submission date. Please contact us for further information.

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