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 Academic Year: |
2014/5 |
| Owning Department/School: |
Department for Health |
| Credits: |
6 |
| Level: |
Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment Summary: |
CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
Before taking this unit you must take HL50001 and take HL50002 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Programme availability: |
HL50007 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
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