Competency information
Details
Critically review an organisation-wide informatics strategy, including issues of patient care and safety and how it relates to national policy and strategy and the underpinning evidence base.
Considerations
- Policy and strategy development life cycles.
- Key current health and care policies and the associated strategies.
- The history of informatics development in the NHS and lessons learnt.
- Strategy analysis methodologies (such as SWOT, PEST and Four Corners, etc.).
- Governance – structures, types and levels of authority, accountability and responsibility for health and care service delivery and outcomes.
- The structure and content of effective strategies.
- The principles of critical appraisal.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Review and critique one organisation’s informatics strategy and its relationship to national policy and strategy, quality control and quality assurance, including how patient care outcomes and patient safety are addressed. |