Fundamentals in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the concepts of patient safety and risk and how national and local patient risk and safety policies impact on your practice.
• Evaluate the importance of carrying out root cause analysis and developed experience applying different analytical tools to real life scenarios.
• Critically reflect upon how this learning can be used to improve patient safety in your own workplace.
• Systematically and critically judge the mechanisms for escalating and communicating concerns within the legal and ethical frameworks required for safe practice.

Indicative module content includes:

• Patient Safety policy: from micro to macro
• Regulation and quality monitoring
• National and local risk management policy
• Error reporting
• Human factors
• Adverse incidents
• Professional codes of conduct and accountability
• Critical incident analysis
• Root cause analysis and fishbone analysis
• Introduction to quality improvement
• Open and fair cultures.

For the 2023/24 curriculum, our PGT/CPD modules will continue to be delivered using hybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery (both live and asynchronous), as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. It is important to recognise the majority of modules contain face to face contact time and attendance at the University will be required.

Learning and teaching methods include:

• Lectures
• Workshops
• Scenarios
• Online tutorials
• E-learning.

A written assignment 

Word count: 3,000

Take a look at the module reading list.