Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Evaluate current strategies and practices for leading healthcare quality.
2. Evaluate a leadership framework which is appropriate for quality improvement.
3. Critically discuss accreditation and standards as an external assessment of the leadership of continuous quality improvement in healthcare services.
4. Evaluate the use of healthcare and clinical governance frameworks to support the leadership of quality in healthcare organisations.
5. Demonstrate ability to effectively and concisely communicate the key concepts of leadership of quality in healthcare to meet the requirements of an academic poster.

Assignment:
[Please write in format of: Introduction, Background, Discussion, Conclusion, References (I have attached some references to my orderbut in addition to them you can use extra references)].

Part A: Leading a quality improvement (2,000 words +/- 10%): [Assesses learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 & 4]
Identify a service or service process in your department/ organisation which provides an opportunity for quality improvement. Provide an evidence-based rationale for this improvement and outline how you would lead its implementation. As part of your answer, critically evaluate your planned leadership approach to the quality improvement.

As you know from my previous assignment in which I have suggested to develop Home Based Treatment team (HBTT) in psychiatric hospitals in Republic of Ireland(I have put it as “My Proposal for Change in the Organisation” in below just as reminding you):
For Improvement of the quality of it, my some suggestions are as below (The writer can suggest other things in addition to these suggestions or some other totally different suggestions):
– The staff can go to the patient’s house to assess patient’s risk (suicidal, etc.) and evaluate that whether patient needs admission in acute psychiatric ward of hospital or the HBTT staff can visit the patient on daily basis at home)

– The hours of working of staff from current 10 hours increase to 24 hours daily.
– HBTT are attended by other disciplines such as social worker (help re solving patient’s financial and/or accommodation issues), bereavement counsellor (as sometimes the acute symptoms of presentations by patients are due to recent bereavement)
– Liaise more with patient’s GP during course of treatment rather than informing GP after discharging from HBTT’s care.

Part B: Poster (word count N/A): [Assesses learning outcome 5]
Construct a poster(according to attached poster template) which summarises and communicates the proposed quality improvement and its leadership.
Please submit a SINGLE PowerPoint file with a SINGLE slide as your poster.

PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE IN THE ORGANISATION