All of our courses and workshops can be provided regionally or locally for individual organizations. For details of our national course dates, please see the calendar.

Facilitating Clinical Governance Course

If you've been designated by your organization to lead or to support clinical governance, our course is designed to help you plan to lead the strategic, structural, cultural and systems implications. The three-day course covers the components needed for clinical governance in detail and gives practical ideas for how to improve your organization's current performance of each component.

Who the course is for
The Facilitating Clinical Governance Course is intended for individuals who have been newly appointed to lead, facilitate, manage or support the clinical governance function.

Where staff appointed to support clinical effectiveness, clinical audit, quality development, risk management or complaints handling programmes are being integrated into new clinical governance roles or new structures, representatives of such staff will benefit from participation in the course.

We offer the course for regional or local groups on request.

What's included
The cost of the three-day residential course is £1010 plus VAT which includes the course fee, all course-related materials and hotel accommodation including meals.

Please contact us for the cost of having a local course in your area.

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Clinical Governance for Clinical Teams Workshop

Clinicians and managers need to work together on the strategic, structural, cultural and systems implications of further implementing clinical governance in their clinical services. The workshop gives practical ideas for how to improve current performance of each clinical governance component. The components emphasised include:

• Quality improvement — what's really involved in getting teams to take a scientifically-sound approach to measuring and improving patient care and services
• Clinical risk management and adverse events — why adverse events are so important and how to analyse adverse events
• Clinical audit and clinical effectiveness — a review of what's involved and the right way to do it
• User involvement — the options for involving users

We offer the workshop at a local level. We travel to your organization and provide the workshop on site at a time most convenient to your staff.

Who the workshop is for
The workshop is intended for all clinical staff and managers. Staff appointed to support clinical effectiveness, clinical audit, quality improvement, risk management or complaints handling programmes will benefit from participation in the workshop.

What's included
Participants receive a book that includes clinical governance components and assignments to be done during the workshop. The book can be used later for reference or to help others understand the content. Please contact us for information regarding the cost of this workshop.

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Managing Clinical Risk Workshop

Clinical risk management is a key component of clinical governance and controls assurance. Trusts are required to have comprehensive risk management activities, including to identify, investigate and take action to prevent adverse events.

This workshop is intended to help clinical teams who need to further develop clinical risk management and adverse events handling. It includes overall principles, research evidence relevant to clinical risk management and practical tools and guidance for identifying and assessing risks.

We offer this workshop at a local level 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 clinicians with responsibility for leading and for participating in clinical risk management and adverse event reporting in their clinical services.

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 or later to help others understand the principles. Please contact us for information regarding the cost of this workshop.

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Facilitating Clinical Governance in Primary Care Course

Primary care teams are expected to produce improvements in the quality of patient care. But evidence-based improvements in quality don't just happen — they are achieved by staff working through a systematic, scientifically-sound process.

Primary care teams taking on quality improvement projects are likely to need help in proper design of improvement projects and in the use of accepted tools and techniques. Primary care teams need to have access to an individual who is prepared to 'enable' the teams to achieve significant improvements. An improvement 'enabler' is someone who is trained to provide clinical teams with the technical expertise they need.

This five-day course is designed especially for individuals who want to learn how to enable clinical teams working in primary care settings. Although this course runs for a week, it can be split into individual days. We provide the course for regional or local groups on request.

Who the course is for
The course is intended for individuals designated to work with primary care teams as facilitators of clinical governance and any others who have a role in supporting primary care teams to improve the quality of their services.

What's included
Each participant receives a 450-page reference manual and other materials. Please contact us to discuss the cost of this course.

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