School for Health, Unit Catalogue 2007/08 |
FH50007 Governance & organisational change |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Modular: no specific semester |
| Assessment: ES100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take FH50001 and take FH50002 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * Define the term governance and explore the history of the process * Explore the ways in which the healthcare organisation develops and changes and what factors influence this process. On completion of this unit students will be able to: * Define the role of governance in a modern healthcare system * Analyse the role of audit in the implementation of organisational change * Develop the concept of healthcare as a "learning organisation". Content: Healthcare is provided by a wide range of highly skilled independent healthcare professionals, but of supreme importance is the maintenance of standards, not only within a healthcare unit, but also between units. This unit explores the issues of regulation, risk management and change in practice. This will include the following topics: * Introduction to clinical governance * Implications of clinical governance on HI and vice-versa * Changing practice * Organisational change * Risk analysis * Health process re-engineering * How informatics enables learning organisation |