- Department: Health Sciences
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
Learners will explore theory of change management. Explore safety, risk and quality. They will use information from audit and research and draw upon the theories of how people work in teams to develop a change management plan.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Summer Term 2024-25 |
Develop students’ abilities to be effective change managers and leaders in healthcare settings.
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Identify opportunities to engage with stakeholders to improve services and care
quality.
2. Discriminate between change management strategies.
3. Apply appropriate change management strategies to improve the quality of care.
4. Lead, manage and coordinate teams based on an understanding of the human factors that impact
on services and quality care.
5. Critically evaluate different types of evidence that inform an understanding of leadership,
change management and service improvement.
Human factors - power/ Educating others (professionals), Power / Horizontal violence, Equality & Diversity /
Delegation / Confidence , Safety & risk/ Quality and risk (including safe staffing) /
Recommendations /Reflection - PDSA, Delegation / Safety & risk, power/ Educating others
(professionals Simple intervention, Developing a business case
Task | % of module mark |
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Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Non-compensatable
Task | % of module mark |
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Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Written feedback for the summative assessment is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.
Burnes, B. (2014) Managing Change. 6th Edn. Harlow: Pearson
NHS Leadership Academy (2013) Healthcare Leadership Model [online]. Available at:
https://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/resources/healthcare-leadership-model/ [accessed 28 March
2019] Gopee, N. & Galloway, J. (2017) Leadership and Management in Healthcare.3rd Edn. Los Angeles:
Sage.