Browse Hierarchy HESC6018: Quality and Clinical Governance

A practice-focussed orientation enables health care professionals to critically relate the conceptual foundations of quality and governance to their own working environment. Students will gain an understanding of the broader theoretical concepts of quality and be able to demonstrate how these are translated and demonstrated in practice through the clinical governance initiative. It challenges accepted notions of measuring quality and performance in complex situations and explores how practitioners can develop more appropriate and effective frameworks. Students are introduced to the complexity of change management and the dilemmas in achieving organisational change through clinical governance. Students are encouraged to critically analyse their own practice/organisation's approach to managing quality improvement within the clinical governance agenda. Students must be a health or social care professional or equivalent.