Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on medicine and supply cost management.
Managing the Cost of Medicines and Medical Supplies
A working programme in medicine and supply cost management for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
Course Overview
Variation in medicine and supply cost management between shifts and sites is where avoidable harm lives. Accreditation bodies assess cost management on documented evidence of consistent practice. Most organisations already have a policy on the practice within health and pharmaceutical services; far fewer can show it working. The programme suits teams tackling medicine and supply cost management together as readily as individuals attending alone. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of this part of health and pharmaceutical services and supervised application. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in cost management that were visible long before the incident. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to medicine and supply cost management in an order their organisation can absorb. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in cost management, not around theory headings. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to the health and pharmaceutical services capability that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Structure records of cost management so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Control cost per episode within medicine and supply cost management without shifting risk to patients.
Apply regulatory and licensing requirements governing cost management.
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that medicine and supply cost management is under control.
Integrate cost management into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Build informed consent and ethics practice into medicine and supply cost management.
Who Should Attend
Anyone whose accountability for medicine and supply cost management exceeds their current formal training in it.
Clinical department heads responsible for cost management.
Nursing managers and clinical supervisors delivering medicine and supply cost management.
Managers with direct responsibility for cost management within the clinical service.
Hospital and health facility managers accountable for medicine and supply cost management.
Medical directors overseeing clinical governance of cost management.
Course Modules
Medicine and supply cost management: clinical process design and workflow
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where medicine and supply cost management typically breaks, and why
- Confirm that reporting on medicine and supply cost management reaches the people who can act.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving cost management.
- Plan continuity of medicine and supply cost management during surge and outbreak conditions.
- Match staffing levels on cost management to measured demand across the week.
Session 2What patients actually experience during cost management
- Build the competence framework that supports medicine and supply cost management.
- Map the handovers in cost management between functions and secure them.
- Review whether medicine and supply cost management is aligned with the objectives of the clinical service.
- Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through cost management.
Cost management: infection prevention and patient safety
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating an adverse event involving cost management
- Close the loop: confirm changes to medicine and supply cost management improved the indicator they targeted.
- Set escalation thresholds for cost management that work out of hours.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to medicine and supply cost management will be introduced.
- Remove steps in cost management that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2The paperwork for cost management that is actually needed
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in medicine and supply cost management.
- Measure patient experience of cost management and feed it back to the team.
- Map the clinical workflow for medicine and supply cost management as it is actually performed.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when cost management underperforms.
Cost management: incident reporting, investigation and learning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in cost management and how to reason about them
- Build medication safety checks into medicine and supply cost management at the point of highest risk.
- Confirm the incident reporting route for cost management is quick and non-punitive.
- Agree what will be standardised in medicine and supply cost management and what will not.
- Cost cost management per episode and identify avoidable waste.
Session 2Matching staffing on medicine and supply cost management to real demand
- Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for medicine and supply cost management.
- Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in cost management.
- Define acceptance criteria for medicine and supply cost management in advance.
- Reduce unwarranted variation in cost management between shifts and sites.
Cost management: staffing, capacity and demand
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making incident reporting on cost management safe for staff
- Collect evidence on the present handling of medicine and supply cost management before proposing changes.
- Select quality indicators for cost management that measure outcome rather than activity.
- Confirm licensing and regulatory requirements applying to medicine and supply cost management are met.
- Set out the decisions in cost management that require sign-off and by whom.
Session 2Keeping supply and cold chain reliable for cost management
- Identify the data already collected that bears on medicine and supply cost management.
- Reduce the variation in how cost management is carried out between teams.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether medicine and supply cost management is improving.
- Check that consent processes within cost management are genuinely informed.
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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