Safety and Quality in Health Care

• Topics

  • Quality in health service organisations
  • Quality assurance in health care
  • Quality improvement
  • Strategy and quality development
  • Implementation
  • Tools of quality improvement
  • Measuring quality improvement
  • Development of quality organisation
  • Risk management

• Study resources

  • Online Materials

    • Resources and Links

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-HIM-GDI-2018
• CUR-HIM-GCE-2018
• CUR-HIM-MAS-2018

Elective

• CUR-HIM-GCE-2018
• RMI-MBA-MAS-2018
• CUR-MPH-GDI-2018
• CUR-MPH-MAS-2018
• OUA-PSU-GCE-2018
• UNE-PRO-GCE-2018

Special requirements

• EquipmentDetails - Audio/Visual equipment

This subject was previously known as Health Service Quality Development.

The goal of this subject is to introduce the student to strategic approaches for developing a quality oriented health service organisation. Topics include: History and development of quality and safety; Quality and safety issues related to leadership, management, planning and management of information; Role of the consumer; Tools for process analysis and management; Outcomes of quality measurement; External recognition of quality programs; Safety and the quality agenda; Role of clinical governance.

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• Essay (40%)
• Case Study Presentations (45%)
• Discussion Board (15%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.

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