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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Continuous improvement and safety recommendations

HSC404 · Principles of Health and Safety for Health Professions — Week 11 of 16

CourseHSC404
Week11 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Continuous improvement and safety recommendations

  1. Updating operational procedures
  2. Change management in care settings
  3. Formulating compliance action plans
  4. Using the Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care
  5. Challenges of quality improvement in health care

What you will be able to do

  • 4.2 Recommend changes to practices, policies and procedures to ensure safety and compliance in the work setting.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: recommend changes to practices, policies and procedures to ensure safety and compliance in the work setting.

Study materials

Videos

  • Using the Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care · YouTube · Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IHI · 3 min · for registered students
  • Challenges of quality improvement in health care · YouTube · Harvard Online · 5 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • A promise to learn – a commitment to act (Berwick review into patient safety, 2013) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
  • Leading health and safety at work (HSE/IoD, INDG417) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 10.2–10.3: Organisational change and managing change · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 278–298 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Legislative frameworks in care
  • Week 2: Organizational health and safety policies
  • Week 3: Supporting compliance and noncompliance outcomes
  • Week 4: Health and safety documentation
  • Week 5: Risk assessment typologies
  • Week 6: Conducting risk assessments
  • Week 7: Collaborative risk management and control
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Balanced approach to risk and review
  • Week 10: Evaluating health and safety effectiveness
  • Week 11: Continuous improvement and safety recommendations
  • Week 12: Applying Principles of Health and Safety for Health Profess…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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