Postgraduate Course: Contemporary issues in service improvement and information use: ideals and reality (ISSH11001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Health |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 'Service Integration' as an aspect of 'Quality Improvement' presents a range of issues around organisational development, and the way information use in service development can facilitate or fail to facilitate, organisational learning. Although these issues are well known, the evidence-base for how to manage them in particular contexts, is weak. The course will centre on a consideration of the range of Service/Quality Improvement models, which structure and facilitate the implementation of service change across services and sectors. The principles underpinning these are similar, and all focus on information use. The evidence base for their effectiveness is not robust, but skills in appraising the models and adapting them to specific circumstances appear to be a factor in their success.
This course will help students draw on their own experience to consider how such adaptations can be made in their own service development work.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Flexible, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
* Understand the theoretical and practical issues associated with health and care integration.
* Discuss critically the challenges and strategic options facing managers striving to integrate and modernise services.
* Understand the dynamics of networks and partnering arrangements, thus enhancing their ability to operate in an integrated service milieu
* Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of service integration.
* Critically digest, analyse and synthesise a wide range of theoretical and empirical material relating to service integration management and change processes.
* Understand, present and evaluate policies and plans relating to service integration.
* Produce a presentation on service integration based on a workplace example, demonstratingpractical planning and conceptual maturity
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Assessment Information
| An essay of 4000 words. |
Special Arrangements
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ailsa Cook
Tel: (0131 6)50 3881
Email: Ailsa.Cook@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lorna Sheal
Tel: (0131 6)50 3890
Email: L.Sheal@ed.ac.uk |
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