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Department for Health, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


HL50007: Governance & organisational change

Click here for further information Credits: 6
Click here for further information Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Click here for further information Period: Modular (no specific semester)
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites: Before taking this unit you must take HL50001 and take HL50002
Click here for further information 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.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

HL50007 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • THHL-ADM13 : MSc Healthcare Informatics (Distance Learning)
  • THHL-ADL11 : PG Dip Healthcare Informatics (Distance Learning)

HL50007 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
  • TSPA-ADT16 : Modular Programme in Advanced and Specialist Practice (Distance Learning)
  • TSPA-ADM16 : MSc Advanced and Specialist Healthcare Practice (Distance Learning)
  • TSPA-ADC16 : PG Cert Advanced and Specialist Healthcare Practice (Distance Learning)
  • TSPA-ADL16 : PG Dip Advanced and Specialist Healthcare Practice (Distance Learning)

NB. Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.