92603 Managing Quality, Risk and Cost in Health Care

This subject is essential grounding for clinicians and managers of health services who seek to implement systems to manage clinical work processes and to monitor their performance. The subject material is advanced, designed for clinicians and managers experienced in health care delivery to acquire the knowledge and skills to comprehensively manage the processes of clinical work, so as to improve the quality, risk and cost outcomes of care within the context of expectations of clinical and corporate governance, organisational performance and workplace change. The subject examines each of the three components individually, and integrates them within a method of clinical process management as the foundation for a model of organisational accountability for patient, clinical and resource outcomes. Excel is used in this subject. No prior knowledge of Excel is needed to undertake this subject.

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus