Leadership for Healthcare Systems
THE OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION
Transforming healthcare through the Healthcare Systems Programme. The programme offers a convenient multimedia learning system that will help you to;
ü Establish and build patient-centred pathways
ü Create clinical networks
ü Understand and use process and outcome measures to best effect
ü Provide a strong foundation to support other quality improvement techniques
ü Make the most of knowledge and IT
ü Meet the challenges of the 21st Century
The horizontal arrangement of healthcare into primary, secondary and tertiary care is no longer useful or fiscally prudent. It creates an environment where it is all too easy to focus on bureaucracy and empire building at the cost of recognising the patient and clinician as decision-makers capable of assessing the most relevant quality of care for their needs. We must move from a service in which institutions are the dominant type of organisation to one in which systems dominate. We must move from Brownian Motion to systems of care, beautifully illustrated in this lecture.
A systems approach to healthcare recognises the vital importance of self-care and informal care. It provides a vehicle to better address the misdistribution of patients throughout the primary, secondary and tertiary system. It can answer the currently unanswerable question of
‘How much money do we spend on heart failure, depression, asthma etc?’
The Oxford Healthcare Systems Programme is an online development programme that equips you with the knowledge and skills necessary to build and strengthen systems of care. By the end of the programme you will have the understanding to enable you to;
- Set standards and decide on objectives
- Choose valid, feasible criteria
- Create clinical networks and manage systems
- Convince clinicians that using systems will improve rather than diminish their status
To get the maximum impact from the programme we can work with you to embed it into your pre-existing structures to provide a seamless experience rather than an ineffectual bolt-on. Support is tailored to match your unique needs.
