Manage the supply chain and cold chain supporting epidemiological surveillance.
Managing Epidemiological Surveillance and Health Early Warning Systems
Turn epidemiological surveillance from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
In healthcare, a weakness in epidemiological surveillance is eventually paid for by a patient. Cost pressure and quality expectations on this area of health and pharmaceutical services are rising at the same time. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of the practice within health and pharmaceutical services rather than to abstract argument. It establishes a shared vocabulary for epidemiological surveillance so that teams can disagree productively about it. The professional literature on the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. They acquire practical criteria for judging when this area of health and pharmaceutical services is working and when it is only appearing to. Participants who influence epidemiological surveillance without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Improvement in the health and pharmaceutical services discipline stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Participants leave with a plan for the health and pharmaceutical services capability sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Design escalation for clinical deterioration detected through epidemiological surveillance.
Design a practical operating method for epidemiological surveillance that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Design a process for epidemiological surveillance that clinical staff can follow without obstructing care.
Assess and control infection risk associated with epidemiological surveillance.
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that epidemiological surveillance is under control.
Assess the current state of epidemiological surveillance against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
Who Should Attend
Supply chain and biomedical staff supporting epidemiological surveillance.
Medical directors overseeing clinical governance of epidemiological surveillance.
Quality and patient safety officers monitoring epidemiological surveillance.
Analysts producing the data on which decisions about epidemiological surveillance rest.
Health information and records staff supporting epidemiological surveillance.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around epidemiological surveillance.
Course Modules
Epidemiological surveillance: quality indicators and patient outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for epidemiological surveillance that is actually needed
- Prepare the summary of epidemiological surveillance that senior management will read.
- Build medication safety checks into epidemiological surveillance at the point of highest risk.
- Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through epidemiological surveillance.
- Match staffing levels on epidemiological surveillance to measured demand across the week.
Session 2What patients actually experience during epidemiological surveillance
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in epidemiological surveillance.
- Identify where judgement in epidemiological surveillance is legitimate and where it is not.
- Map the clinical workflow for epidemiological surveillance as it is actually performed.
- Confirm patient data handled within epidemiological surveillance meets confidentiality obligations.
Epidemiological surveillance: incident reporting, investigation and learning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Infection risk created by epidemiological surveillance
- Measure patient experience of epidemiological surveillance and feed it back to the team.
- Close the loop: confirm changes to epidemiological surveillance improved the indicator they targeted.
- Agree what will be standardised in epidemiological surveillance and what will not.
- Cost epidemiological surveillance per episode and identify avoidable waste.
Session 2Designing epidemiological surveillance so it helps rather than obstructs care
- Compare the cost of epidemiological surveillance with the cost of its absence.
- Define acceptance criteria for epidemiological surveillance in advance.
- Audit epidemiological surveillance by observing practice, not by reading policy.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on epidemiological surveillance.
Epidemiological surveillance: cost, efficiency and sustainability of the service
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on epidemiological surveillance starts
- Test the procedure for epidemiological surveillance against a realistic scenario.
- Select quality indicators for epidemiological surveillance that measure outcome rather than activity.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving epidemiological surveillance.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around epidemiological surveillance are understood.
Session 2Investigating an adverse event involving epidemiological surveillance
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to epidemiological surveillance will be introduced.
- Name a single owner for each element of epidemiological surveillance.
- Anticipate the objections epidemiological surveillance will raise and prepare the answers.
- Set the review interval for epidemiological surveillance and who attends.
Epidemiological surveillance: clinical process design and workflow
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Matching staffing on epidemiological surveillance to real demand
- Check that consent processes within epidemiological surveillance are genuinely informed.
- Identify infection transmission risks created by epidemiological surveillance and control them.
- Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in epidemiological surveillance.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about epidemiological surveillance.
Session 2Closing out epidemiological surveillance and capturing what was learned
- Plan continuity of epidemiological surveillance during surge and outbreak conditions.
- Map the handovers in epidemiological surveillance between functions and secure them.
- Confirm the incident reporting route for epidemiological surveillance is quick and non-punitive.
- Remove steps in epidemiological surveillance that add effort without adding assurance.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- 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
USD1,850
- 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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