
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
8 hours
Leading Healthcare Quality Improvement and Organisational Effectiveness
What do effective healthcare organisations do?
This short course will give you the opportunity to critically explore the importance of change and innovation for healthcare quality improvement. Using comparative evaluation of quality improvement tools and a number of case studies, you will consider the need for service quality improvement, tools that can be used, and organisational effectiveness.
What topics will you cover?
- Change and innovation in healthcare
- The need for quality improvement and tools that can be used
- Systematic change management models and their application to healthcare
- Performance management systems – people, methods and tools
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore the importance of change and innovation for healthcare quality improvement
- Investigate concepts, tools and models relevant to leading innovation and change in healthcare
- Explore the concept of organisational effectiveness in healthcare systems
Who is the course for?
For healthcare professionals and administrators wishing to progress into middle or senior management roles, as well as policy makers, executives, consultants and service providers in the health sector.
Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.
Who will you learn with?
Ike teaches healthcare leadership & management. A Senior Fellow of HEA; he brings over 18 years of leadership and management experience in global health and development practice and higher education.
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- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
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- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
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- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
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