Plan staffing and rota cover appropriate to demand in medical communication with families.
Managing Effective Medical Communication with Patients and Families
Practical training in medical communication with families, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
Course Overview
Cost pressure and quality expectations on medical communication with families are rising at the same time. The data supporting communication with families is usually present but rarely assembled into a decision. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in this area of health and pharmaceutical services rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about medical communication with families under scrutiny. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda, in large organisations and small ones alike. Where communication with families is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. The version of medical communication with families described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. This programme builds communication with families from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this aspect of health and pharmaceutical services that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Anticipate the objections that communication with families will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Translate policy on medical communication with families into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that communication with families is under control.
Build the quality indicators for medical communication with families that reflect patient outcome, not activity.
Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on communication with families.
Apply regulatory and licensing requirements governing medical communication with families.
Who Should Attend
Accreditation and compliance officers preparing evidence on medical communication with families.
Quality and patient safety officers monitoring communication with families.
Business partners who must understand medical communication with families well enough to challenge it.
Finance managers costing services delivered through communication with families.
Regulatory affairs specialists handling medical communication with families.
Internal auditors reviewing how communication with families is designed and operated.
Course Modules
Medical communication with families: cost, efficiency and sustainability of the service
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating an adverse event involving medical communication with families
- Measure patient experience of medical communication with families and feed it back to the team.
- Close the loop: confirm changes to communication with families improved the indicator they targeted.
- Cost medical communication with families per episode and identify avoidable waste.
- Map the clinical workflow for communication with families as it is actually performed.
Session 2Auditing communication with families at the bedside, not in the binder
- Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for medical communication with families.
- Name a single owner for each element of communication with families.
- Build the internal briefing that explains medical communication with families to those affected.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in communication with families.
Communication with families: quality indicators and patient outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Escalation and decision rights in communication with families
- Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through medical communication with families.
- Match staffing levels on communication with families to measured demand across the week.
- Close out actions on medical communication with families rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Draft the minimum viable clinical protocol for communication with families.
Session 2Infection risk created by communication with families
- Build medication safety checks into medical communication with families at the point of highest risk.
- Confirm patient data handled within communication with families meets confidentiality obligations.
- Plan continuity of medical communication with families during surge and outbreak conditions.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether communication with families is improving.
Communication with families: clinical process design and workflow
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Medication safety checkpoints inside communication with families
- Arrange the handover of medical communication with families so capability survives staff changes.
- Compare the cost of communication with families with the cost of its absence.
- Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in medical communication with families.
- Verify six months later that changes to communication with families have held.
Session 2Building the method for medical communication with families step by step
- Identify infection transmission risks created by medical communication with families and control them.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates communication with families is under control.
- Select quality indicators for medical communication with families that measure outcome rather than activity.
- Rank the weaknesses in communication with families by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Communication with families: supply, cold chain and availability
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in communication with families and what to ignore
- Define acceptance criteria for medical communication with families in advance.
- Estimate the resource communication with families requires to run as designed.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving medical communication with families.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to communication with families.
Session 2Choosing indicators for communication with families that reflect outcome
- Audit medical communication with families by observing practice, not by reading policy.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of communication with families current.
- Remove steps in medical communication with families that add effort without adding assurance.
- Reduce unwarranted variation in communication with families between shifts and sites.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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