Clinical Practice Improvement (Short Course)

24-25 January 2012

A 2-day short course designed for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals:

• Identify problems in health care processes that impact on patient care
• Design an improvement project
• Practice working with a team to execute the improvement plan

View the course programme here:

During the course delegates will:

• Enhance their knowledge of quality Improvement theory
• Learn to identify causes of process failures within their clinical teams
• Appreciate basic elements of leadership and teamwork
• Learn to design  effective solutions using plan, do, study, act (PDSA) tests of change
• Gain awareness of microsystem re-engineering, human factors and reliable design principles
• Learn basics for quality measurement using statistical process control charts

Teaching Faculty

• Ms Bernie Harrison Director Clinical Leadership Development and Training Clinical Excellence Commission Sydney Australia
  MPH (Hons), Grad Cert Med Ed, RN, RM 
  Bernie Harrison has over ten years experience in conducting training programs in Clinical Practice Improvement.  She has conducted workshops in the UK, Singpaore, New Zealand and throughout Australia. She has also worked for 7yrs as the Director of the NSW transfusion medicine improvement program - Blood Watch. She is a clinical lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and has recently been appointed as a visiting fellow to the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at the University of New South Wales. 
  
  Bernie was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2001 to study in the USA and undertook training programs in Utah at Intermountain Health Care  and Boston at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement  in improvement methodologies. In 2010 she returned to her host instiutions and undertook further training in patient safety and health care improvement methods. These new approaches have been incorporated into the NSW training programs.
  
  Bernie was a former member of the NSW Ministerial Advisory Council for Health Care Quality. She has 17 years experience in medical record review programs including in 1992 project managing the Quality in Australian Health Care Study (QAHCS) which was published in the MJA in 1995.

 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS staff can benefit from 10% discount.

The fee covers attendance at the course and course materials. Please note all fees must be received before the course start date.

Venue

The course will be held at the St Mary's Campus, Imperial College London

Accommodation

Single bedroom accommodation is available in local hotels within easy access to the College. Minimum cost of a room with shower/bath will be in the region of £85 per night. This is additional to the course fee, and participants are responsible for payment of their hotel bills.

For further details and reservations, please contact:

Hotel Booking Service Accommodation Link London SW7 2PG Tel: +44 (0)207 594 9507/11 Fax: +44 (0)207 594 9504/5Email: accommodationlink@imperial.ac.uk Information is available at: www.imperial.ac.uk/conferences

Cancellations

A 20% administration fee will be levied for cancellations made up to two weeks prior to the start of the course. Cancellations thereafter will be liable to the loss of the full fee. Notice of cancellation must be given in writing by letter or fax and action will be taken to recover, from the delegates or their employers, that proportion of the fee owing at the time of cancellation.

Imperial College London reserves the right to cancel an advertised course at short notice. It will endeavour to provide participants with as much notice as possible, but will not accept liability for costs incurred by participants or their organisations for the cancellation of travel arrangements and/or accommodation reservations as a result of the course being cancelled or postponed. If the course is cancelled, fees will be refunded in full. Imperial College London also reserves the right to postpone or make such alterations to the content of the course as may be necessary.