Education level 2: Deepen understanding
Realistic Medicine - National toolkit for professionals
Deepen your understanding of quality improvement methodology and consider how you could use a quality improvement approach in your area.
Source: NHS Education for Scotland (NES).
Description: no set learning objectives – the site covers all components of QI. Many layers of content including animations, guidance, downloadable toolkits, eLearning modules.
eModules include:
- Measurement for Improvement
- Understanding your system
- Developing your aims and change ideas
- Testing your change ideas
- Implementation and Spread
- Introduction to demand, capacity, activity and queue (DCAQ)
- Introduction to Value Management
Target audience: all those working in health and social care (both patient facing and non-patient facing).
Access: Open to anybody. TURAS log in (no restrictions to set-up) required for eModules.
Time to complete: various approximately 30 minutes per eLearning module.
Source: NHS National Services Scotland.
Description: no set learning objectives. Discovery is an information system that provides approved users from the Scottish Government, Health Boards, Local Authorities and Health & Social Care Partnerships with access to a range of comparative healthcare information to support performance and quality improvement across Health & Social Care in Scotland. It is an ongoing collaboration between NHS Boards, the Scottish Government, and Public Health Scotland.
Target audience: health and social care managers, analysts and clinicians.
Access: account required - must be requested through Discovery.
Comments: there are interactive information guides, providing contextual information for existing and potential users of Discovery.
Source: Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Description: learning objectives will vary from session to session. QI Connect provides clinicians with the opportunity to learn from national and international leaders in the field of improvement and innovation. Our reach is global – healthcare professionals from more than 60 countries link in to our QI Connect sessions each month.
Target audience: all those working in health and social care.
Access: webinars can be viewed from anywhere, in live time or via a recording. Email: his.qiconnect@nhs.scot to be added to mailing list and receive registration links for each webinar.