Clinical staff will work around a process for smart hospital transition that obstructs care, and they will be right to. Cost pressure and quality expectations on this part of health and pharmaceutical services are rising at the same time. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this strand of health and pharmaceutical services and the judgement to adapt it. Participants apply smart hospital transition to their own clinical service throughout, so the output is directly usable. The most reliable predictor of sound the health and pharmaceutical services capability is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for this part of health and pharmaceutical services, not for observers of it. The difficulty is not agreeing that smart hospital transition matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. Participants gain a realistic view of what this strand of health and pharmaceutical services costs and what it returns. The programme closes with an action plan for the health and pharmaceutical services discipline that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Compare the organisation's handling of smart hospital transition with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
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Control cost per episode within smart hospital transition without shifting risk to patients.
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Assess and control infection risk associated with smart hospital transition.
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Align smart hospital transition with the wider objectives of the clinical service rather than optimising it in isolation.
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Plan staffing and rota cover appropriate to demand in smart hospital transition.
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Select indicators that show whether smart hospital transition is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
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Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on smart hospital transition.
Who Should Attend
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Accreditation and compliance officers preparing evidence on smart hospital transition.
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Staff seconded into improvement work on smart hospital transition.
