Root Cause Analysis Workshop

Clinical teams have to be able to analyse adverse events or near misses that occur in the delivery of patient care as part of an effective clinical risk management programme. Some clinical groups have developed an open and enquiring attitude toward the analysis of events that harm or could harm patients or staff. But clinical teams and clinical service managers often benefit from learning how to carry out root cause analysis of an adverse event.

In order to involve as many clinical staff as possible, we offer the workshop at a local level and at a time most convenient to the participants. We travel to your organization and provide the workshop onsite.

Who the workshop is for
The workshop is designed for clinical staff and managers of clinical services who have responsibility for leading and for participating in clinical risk management in their services. Clinical risk managers and clinical governance facilitators will benefit from learning how to facilitate clinical teams to carry out root cause analysis.

What's included
Participants receive a copy of a book that includes principles, step-by-step guidance, examples and practical assignments to do in the workshop. The book can be used as a reference book later or to help others understand the principles. Contact us for detailed information regarding costs.

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Clinical Risk Assessment Workshop

A clinical risk management programme requires that the clinical risks in all clinical services be assessed systematically. Based on the clinical risk assessment, clinical teams set priorities for risk management activities.

This workshop is intended to help clinical teams who need to complete a systematic assessment of clinical risks in their services. It includes principles, research evidence relevant to clinical risks by type of care and type of clinical service and practical tools and guidance for identifying and assessing risks.

In order to involve as many clinical staff as possible, we offer the workshop at a local level and at a time most convenient to the participants. We travel to your organization and provide the workshop onsite.

Who the workshop is for
The workshop is designed for clinical staff and managers of clinical services who have responsibility for leading and for participating in clinical risk management. Clinical governance facilitators and clinical risk managers will benefit from learning how to facilitate clinical teams to carry out systematic clinical risk assessments.

What's included
Participants receive a copy of a book that includes principles, step-by step guidance, examples and practical assignments to do in the workshop. The book can be used as a reference book later or to help others understand the principles. Please contact us for information regarding the cost of this workshop.

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Changing Clinical Practice Workshop

This workshop is intended to enable staff to understand what's involved in achieving and maintaining changes in clinical practice. The workshop reviews current research evidence about achieving changes in clinical behaviour and suggests how to apply the findings.

The workshop provides a model — I-M-P-R-O-V-E-S — to help people remember all the stages needed and the right sequence of the stages to achieve and maintain change. It also provides techniques teams can use to carry out the stages in the model and opportunities to think about how the model can be applied in actual work situations.

We offer the workshop locally or regionally on request on a date convenient to your organization. We provide the workshop in your local venue in order to enable a maximum number of clinicians and managers to work together to plan changes in practice.

Who the workshop is for
The workshop is intended for individuals who will assume responsibility for achieving or helping to achieve changes in clinical practice. Clinicians, managers, clinical effectiveness and clinical audit facilitators, quality development managers, clinical governance leads and managers will benefit from participation in the workshop.

What's included
The participants receive a book that includes a summary of research evidence on methods for changing clinical practice and a practical approach to planning and implementing change in clinical practice. The book is for use during the workshop and for later reference or use in teaching others within the organization. Contact us for detailed information about costs.

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Writing for Publication Workshop

We've observed that many people working in their own clinical settings have carried out improvement or clinical effectiveness projects, clinical audits, formal evaluation studies or research projects that really make an important difference to patients, users or staff. Often, the work has been well designed with evidence supporting the benefits.

Surprisingly, the people involved in creating exciting, innovative solutions to long-standing problems don't think of publishing their work. They have done all the steps from researching existing literature to repeating baseline measurement to show improvements in service. But they are so daunted by the publication process that they don't think of publishing!

We provide this one-day Writing for Publication Workshop for regional or local groups on site, at a time most convenient to you.

Who the workshop is for
The workshop is intended for staff who have carried out an improvement or clinical effectiveness project or a clinical audit or a research or evaluation study and want to write either a report or an article about their work. It is also for staff who have to write other important materials such as information for users or patients. Staff who have previous experience in submitting material for publication also will find the workshop of value in updating their knowledge of the publication process.

What's included
Each participant receives a book that includes reference material and practical assignments to complete in the workshop. Contact us to discuss the cost of this workshop.

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