BSc (Hons) Enhanced Integrated Care

SOUD3065
Lean Healthcare and Clinical Effectiveness

This module will develop the students ability to analyse and utilise evidence to inform clinical decision-making, improving clinical effectiveness. Change is influential in?Lean Healthcare?implementation. Change management helps create the platform for continuous and sustained improvements. The module explains the roles of communication, team building, and leadership in managing change resistance.

SOUD3066
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Module gives health professionals an understanding of the historical development and current state of affairs in Quality Improvement and the patient safety movement. It will enable students to reflect on the challenges of improving healthcare delivery and specifically enhancing patient safety. Module incorporates the latest thinking relating to improvement models and the contribution of human factors to patient safety.

SOUD3067
Generational Factors and Patient Engagement

This module enables students to understand the differences in generations in order to provide effective patient engagement improving patient centred care. Patients express different preferences based on their age and life experiences. In understanding factors that affect engagement including emotional intelligence, students may help the patient access the care they truly need becoming consumers of healthcare.

SOUD3068
Major Research Project

Designed to allow students to conduct an in-depth study of an area in health and care that they are particularly interested in, and to enable them to demonstrate skills and knowledge acquired throughout the programme of study. Projects can take several forms and the students are expected to develop cognitive skills through the understanding of the chosen topic area and presentation of technical information.

SOUD3064
Divergence in Health and Wellbeing

There is a key focus on the growing health and wellbeing gap across the health and social care sector, the inequalities across the funding and policy landscape and how new models of care will have implications for national and local reform. Students will consolidate the link between the NHS and health inequalities and how social determinant interventions drive improvements with the aim of reducing disparities.