Rhedir gan School of Medical and Health Sciences

20.000 Credyd neu 10.000 Credyd ECTS

Semester 1 a 2

Trefnydd: Mrs Carol Westwell

The purpose of the module is to introduce the concept of quality in healthcare. This includes quality as theoretical concept and as a fundamental feature of in health services and healthcare. The module explores how healthcare quality is influenced and how it can be effectively measured and evaluated. The module utilises a variety of blended learning approaches and mainly online activities/resources and taught sessions to support your knowledge and enhance understanding.

This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to critically evaluate the concept of quality within healthcare, and the foundations of different approaches to improving quality. The key themes the module content will include are:

• Quality in health and social care, theoretical and practice perspectives.
• Exploration of external drivers and contextual influences that shape the adoption of different approaches to improvement, and how quality challenges are framed
• Legislative, governance and professional issues in quality and service improvement
• Evaluating improvement
• The components of improvement and performance management
• Evidence base practice and approaches to implementation
• Securing improvement: Co-production and other approaches employed to achieve best practice
• UK and international perspectives in quality and service improvement
• Developing analytic frameworks to support service improvement and outcomes

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Threshold C grade, minimum 50% (pass)

• Demonstrate knowledge of key areas/principles.
• Have some, if only limited, evidence of background study.
• Be focused on the question (assessment brief) with only some irrelevant material and weaknesses in structure
• Attempt to present relevant and logical arguments.
• Not contain a large number of factual/computational errors.
• Describe major links between topics.
• Attempt to analyse and/or explain problems.
• Be free of major weaknesses in presentation and accuracy.

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Good B grade, minimum 60% (merit)

• Demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of most of the subject area.
• Demonstrate evidence of background study.
• Be well structured and focused.
• Contain coherently presented arguments.
• Be mostly free of factual/computational errors.
• Include some elements of original interpretation.
• Describe well known links between topics.
• Analyse and/or explain problems using existing methods/approaches
• Be presented to high standards with accurate communication.

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Excellent A grade, minimum 70% (distinction)

• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and detailed understanding of the subject area.
• Demonstrate extensive background study.
• Be well structured and highly focussed.
• Contain logically presented and defended arguments.
• Be free of factual/computational errors.
• Include significant elements of original interpretation.
• Demonstrate an ability to identify, develop and present new links between topics.
• Include new approaches to analysing and/or explaining a problem.
• Be presented to very high standards with very accurate communication.

1. Critically review the drivers, facilitators and barriers to improvements in the quality of care

2. Critically examine the evaluation of improvement interventions in practice

3. Explore & critically analyse the concept of quality including theories & frameworks underpinning different approaches to its improvement in health and social care

4. Examine and review approaches to quality improvement, including the use of research & evidence in health and social care

Math	Enw	Disgrifiad	Pwysau
	Critical analysis of theoretical approaches		80.00
	Presentation of quality theory or framework		20.00

		Oriau
Study group	Individual and group presentations based on lectures & directed study	50
Lecture	Lectures – class based and on-line learning using for example, Panoptos	25
Group Project	Seminars based on directed study	20
Seminar	Group activities - class based and online. For example, via the VLE facility	5
Private study	Use of ITC to support on-line learning and group interaction e.g. blogs, on-line activities and discussion	100

• Llythrennedd - Medrusrwydd mewn darllen ac ysgrifennu drwy amrywiaeth o gyfryngau
• Rhifedd - Medrusrwydd wrth ddefnyddio rhifau ar lefelau priodol o gywirdeb
• Defnyddio cyfrifiaduron - Medrusrwydd wrth ddefnyddio ystod o feddalwedd cyfrifiadurol
• Hunanreolaeth - Gallu gweithio mewn ffordd effeithlon, prydlon a threfnus. Gallu edrych ar ganlyniadau tasgau a digwyddiadau, a barnu lefelau o ansawdd a phwysigrwydd
• Archwilio - Gallu ymchwilio ac ystyried dewisiadau eraill
• Adalw gwybodaeth - Gallu mynd at wahanol ac amrywiol ffynonellau gwybodaeth
• Sgiliau Rhyngbersonol - Gallu gofyn cwestiynau, gwrando'n astud ar atebion a'u harchwilio
• Dadansoddi Beirniadol & Datrys Problem - Gallu dadelfennu a dadansoddi problemau neu sefyllfaoedd cymhleth. Gallu canfod atebion i broblemau drwy ddadansoddiadau ac archwilio posibiliadau
• Ymwybyddiaeth o ddiogelwch - Bod yn ymwybodol o'ch amgylchedd a hyder o ran cadw at reoliadau iechyd a diogelwch
• Cyflwyniad - Gallu cyflwyno gwybodaeth ac esboniadau yn glir i gynulleidfa. Trwy gyfryngau ysgrifenedig neu ar lafar yn glir a hyderus.
• Gwaith Tîm - Gallu cydweithio'n adeiladol ag eraill ar dasg gyffredin, ac/neu fod yn rhan o dîm gweithio o ddydd i ddydd
• Mentora - Gallu cefnogi, helpu, arwain, ysbrydoli ac/neu hyfforddi eraill
• Gofalu - Dangos consyrn am eraill; gofalu am blant, pobl ag anableddau ac/neu'r henoed
• Rheloaeth - Gallu defnyddio, cydlynu a rheoli adnoddau (dynol, ffisegol ac/neu ariannol)
• Dadl - Gallu cyflwyno, trafod a chyfiawnhau barn neu lwybr gweithredu, naill ai gydag unigolyn neu mewn grwˆp ehangach
• Hunanymwybyddiaeth & Ystyried - Bod yn ymwybodol o'ch cryfderau, gwendidau, nodau ac amcanion eich hun. Gallu adolygu ,cloriannu a myfyrio'n rheolaidd ar eich perfformiad eich hun ac eraill.
• Arweinyddiaeth - Gallu arwain a rheoli, datblygu cynlluniau gweithredu ac amcanion, cynnig arweiniad a chyfarwyddyd i eraill, ac ymdopi â'r pwysau sy'n gysylltiedig ag awdurdod o'r fath

Goblygiadau o ran adnoddau ar gyfer myfyrwyr

Students will need access to the internet and word processing in line with current University requirements for information and communication technology Study materials will be made available through the programme black board site, or via Bangor University library.

Rhestr ddarllen

• Rycroft-Malone J. and Bucknall T. (Eds) (2010) Models and Frameworks for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Linking Evidence to Action Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
• Bick D. (2013) Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Hoboken: Wiley
• Berwick D.M (2014) Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
• Greenhalgh T. (2013) How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine. Chicester: Wiley