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Policy, Strategy and Operations

Module information

Module details

Title
Policy, Strategy and Operations
Type
Specialist
Module code
S-HI-S3
Credits
10
Phase
3
Requirement
Compulsory

Aim of this module

This module will provide trainees with the key knowledge and skills required by professionals to understand, contribute to, write and deliver policy and strategy for safe and secure health systems.

Work-based content

Training activities

# Learning outcome Training activity Type Action
# 1 Learning outcome 1,2 Training activities

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

 Type DTA Action View
# 2 Learning outcome 1,2,3 Training activities

Report on the alignment of an organisation-wide informatics strategy to national policy and strategy, document the findings and make recommendations to resolve any problems identified

 Type DTA Action View
# 3 Learning outcome 1,2,3 Training activities

Summarise findings from a review of an organisation-wide informatics strategy and present these to peers and colleagues, responding to questions

 Type DTA Action View
# 4 Learning outcome 1,2,3,4 Training activities

Identify projects taking place within a department and identify the policy or strategic drivers underpining the projects and perform a gap analysis between the projects and local strategy

 Type DTA Action View
# 5 Learning outcome 1,2,3,4 Training activities

Analyse a departmental policy and identify which external drivers informed the creation and content of the policy

 Type DTA Action View
# 6 Learning outcome 5 Training activities

Carry out a policy audit to identify whether a policy is being followed appropriately, and report the findings and recommendations to the policy owner

 Type DTA Action View
# 7 Learning outcome 5 Training activities

Audit service management practice against standards and frameworks

 Type DTA Action View
# 8 Learning outcome 6 Training activities

Critically appraise the role of stakeholders and stakeholder engagement in a local informatics-related strategy’s development and implementation and make recommendations for future engagement

 Type DTA Action View
# 9 Learning outcome 6 Training activities

Meet with and seek the views of a cross-section of stakeholders on informatics-related strategy

 Type DTA Action View
# 10 Learning outcome 7 Training activities

Follow quality management procedures for managing and making changes to controlled documents

 Type DTA Action View

Assessments

Complete 2 Case-Based Discussions

Complete 2 DOPS or OCEs

Direct Observation of Practical Skills Titles

  • Review SOPs for fitness for purpose and make recommendations.
  • Raise a change request or quality improvement suggestion.
  • Perform an initial data protection impact assessment.

Observed Communication Event Titles

  • Present findings of an audit to the department.
  • Answer a query on a SOP.

Learning outcomes

# Learning outcome
1

Critically appraise organisational informatics strategies in relation to national policy and strategy.
2

Critically evaluate the application of quality control and quality assurance measures within organisational informatics strategies, including how patient care outcomes and patient safety are addressed.
3

Perform and report gap and alignment analysis of projects against local and national strategies including recommendations to resolve issue identified.
4

Identify drivers for projects, appraising the relationship to policy and strategy.
5

Perform policy audits and report conclusion and recommendations.
6

Critique the role of stakeholders and plan and implement stakeholder engagement in local informatics strategies.
7

Practice in accordance quality management processes.

Clinical experiences

Clinical experiences help you to develop insight into your practice and a greater understanding of your specialty's impact on patient care. Clinical experiences should be included in your training plan and you may be asked to help organise your experiences. Reflections and observations from your experiences may help you to advance your practice and can be used to develop evidence to demonstrate your awareness and appreciation of your specialty.

Activities

  1. Shadow at least two senior managers to appreciate the impact of service management on practice.
  2. Meet with information governance policy makers to appreciate their roles and responsibilities in defining department/organisational policy.
  3. Meet with the personal responsible for management of health information to appreciate their role and responsibilities in managing patient information within the organisation.
  4. Attend a meeting where information and records management issues and risks are discussed to appreciate the management.

Academic content (MSc in Clinical Science)

Important information

The academic parts of this module will be detailed and communicated to you by your university. Please contact them if you have questions regarding this module and its assessments. The module titles in your MSc may not be exactly identical to the work-based modules shown in the e-portfolio. Your modules will be aligned, however, to ensure that your academic and work-based learning are complimentary.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module the trainee will be able to:

  1. Discuss the policy-making process in healthcare, including an understanding of where to find and identify key existing healthcare policies and legislation.
  2. Critically evaluate the role of health informatics in current national health policy and appraise how national policy is translated into local strategy, planning and activity.
  3. Explain the current organisational structures of healthcare, including the associated regulation and performance frameworks, and the role of health informatics within these structures.
  4. Apply a ‘systems thinking’ approach to resolve identified organisational/departmental problems.
  5. Discuss the role of health data in developing and evaluating health policies to support safe and efficient services.
  6. Critically appraise the methods, mechanisms and processes commonly used for change management activity in the healthcare sector in the context of health informatics.
  7. Communicate health and informatics policy management issues using appropriate channels and technologies.

Indicative content

  • Current national and international health and social care policies including health informatics
  • The policy/strategy development process
  • National indicators and outcome frameworks in health and social care, and informatics (e.g., digital maturity index)
  • Tools for strategic decision-making and planning including those to identify issues, and consult with stakeholders to agree policy/strategy
  • Monitoring the effectiveness and consequences of policy/strategy implementation
  • Development of key performance indicators/measures for services distinguishing between quantity and quality, and between effort and effect
  • Sources of data available to monitor and evaluate policy/strategy implementation
  • Communication strategies to framing policy and strategy changes
  • Business and commercial models and management
  • Approaches and frameworks used in health and social care
  • Acquisition of products, services and people
  • The healthcare sector management and organisational structures
  • Mechanisms, processes and methodologies for addressing and improving efficiency and productivity (e.g., Lean and Six Sigma)
  • Methods, mechanisms, processes and tools to collect assess and provide evidence based medicine and practice

Module assigned to

Specialties

Specialty code Specialty title Action
Specialty code SBI1-3-22 Specialty title Clinical Informatics [2022] Action View
Specialty code SBI1-3-23 Specialty title Clinical Informatics [2023] Action View
Specialty code SBI1-3-24 Specialty title Clinical Informatics [2024] Action View
Specialty code SBI1-3-25 Specialty title Clinical Informatics [2025] Action View
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