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PGCert in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

University of Oxford

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  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Certificate

  • Location

    University of Oxford

  • Study mode

    Part time

  • Start date

    04-OCT-26

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

The Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement is a part-time course for healthcare professionals, offered by the Department for Continuing Education in collaboration with the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences. It can be completed in one year (though two years is possible), and consists of three modules, each a week long and taught in Oxford. The department provides online support and e-Library access for distance learning on either side of the Oxford-based weeks.The course will appeal to doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and others who have an interest in patient safety and quality improvement.By taking the Postgraduate Certificate in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, you will gain a deeper understanding of the factors influencing patient safety, learn how to investigate safety problems and how to make care safer. You will also learn about quality improvement approaches and how to better understand our complex healthcare systems so as to improve quality of care across multiple domains, such as outcomes, patient experience and timeliness. You will gain an understanding of:How to take a broad, systems view of the care system you want to understand and improve, including how to develop insight into technical, human and organisational dimensions of an improvement or safety challengeThe underlying principles behind the sometimes-confusing array of quality improvement methods, each with their own advocates and jargon, learning how these methods relate to one another and how they fit into an overarching model of quality improvementHow to measure different aspects of quality and care systemsWhy changes that initially succeed will, more often than not, degrade over time – and what works to prevent this so that initial changes are sustained and further improvement can be built upon themApproaches for understanding and improving safety in healthcare including human factors, design and ergonomics

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£ 10,965per year

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University information

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

  • University League Table

    2nd

  • Campus address

    University of Oxford, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2JD, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    General Engineering

    3rd out of 32 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 221
    211 95%

    2nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    94.0 94%

    5th

    1

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.09 77%

    16th

    5

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