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HL50175: Implementing change in primary care

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2015/6
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Department for Health
Further information on credits Credits: 6
Further information on unit levels Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Modular (no specific semester)
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Summary: CW100
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Detail:
  • Assessment detail to be confirmed ( %)
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Further information on requisites Requisites: In taking this module you cannot take HL50079 OR take HL50082
Further information on descriptions Description: This unit will require approximately 100 study hours to complete.
Aims:
To enable participants to use evidence to develop a strategy for practice change in a primary care setting. Specifically:
* To critically evaluate knowledge and develop competence in implementing health-related evidence within primary care contexts.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the unit the student will be able to:
1. critically evaluate how evidence is used within the clinical decision making process for individual patients in a primary care setting
2. critically evaluate how evidence is used to guide health policy and health service delivery decisions at macro, meso, and micro levels
3. critically discuss and assess general change theory and models of change, and evaluate how and what makes clinicians change their practice
4. identify major barriers to implementing change and develop strategies to overcome them
5. Identify, review and critically discuss the different types of resources available to facilitate embedding findings from research into health service delivery and clinical practice
6. implement, manage, monitor and evaluate change in their own practice context
7. reflect on their own interaction with the evidence base and identify areas for continuous improvement.
These learning outcomes will be taught, facilitated and assessed.

Skills:
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
1. Identify the basic processes involved in utilising evidence within clinical decision making (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed)
2. Identify the methods by which evidence is used to inform health policy and service delivery decisions at macro meso and micro levels (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed)
3. Identify and utilize different change models within their practice-base for the effective implementation of evidence (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed)
4. Identify strategies within their practice-base for the evaluation of implemented change (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed).

Content:
1. Factors impacting on use of evidence in clinical decision-making
2. Factors impacting on use of evidence to inform health policy and service delivery decisions at international; national; organisational and individual levels
3. Theoretical models developed to identify the stages in managing change
4. Strengths and weaknesses of these models and their usefulness in different situations
5. Key barriers to implementing changes in practice
6. Strategies which can be adopted to help bring about change in individuals and in organisations
7. Types of evaluation which can be used to review change
8. How the findings of evaluations of change contribute to the change process
9. Key organisations and resources that promote research into practice
10. Processes for the development of guidance for policy and practice
11. Assessment of the quality of clinical guidelines
12. Factors preventing or hindering the use or adoption of guidelines.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

HL50175 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department for Health
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2015/16 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2016/17 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2015/16.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.