Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
About this course

Overview

Preventable harm is a systems problem that keeps getting treated as an individual one. This covers quality improvement methods, analysing incidents honestly, and the safety culture work that moves an organisation past compliance and into measurable improvement.

What you will be able to do

Learning outcomes

  • Run a quality improvement cycle
  • Conduct a root cause analysis of harm
  • Select and track meaningful safety indicators
  • Encourage open incident reporting
  • Embed improvements into routine practice
What the course sets out to do

Course objectives

  • Apply structured quality improvement methods
  • Analyse incidents and adverse events
  • Measure quality and safety performance
  • Build a just and reporting safety culture
  • Sustain improvement beyond one-off projects
Course content

Modules

01

Quality improvement foundations

Improvement science and structured QI methods.

02

Measuring quality and safety

Indicators, dashboards, and interpreting variation.

03

Incident and adverse event analysis

Root cause analysis of preventable harm.

04

Safety culture

Just culture, reporting, and psychological safety.

05

Improvement projects

Planning and running practical improvement work.

06

Sustaining change

Embedding and spreading improvement across services.

Who it is for

Target audience

Quality managers, patient safety leads, clinical governance staff, and service managers in health facilities.

Before you start

Prerequisites

A clinical, quality or health management role.

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