Health and Pharmaceutical Administration

Planning Health Sector Response to Epidemics and Pandemics

An applied course in epidemic response planning built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Planning Health Sector Response to Epidemics and Pandemics
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Variation in epidemic response planning between shifts and sites is where avoidable harm lives. The data supporting this part of health and pharmaceutical services is usually present but rarely assembled into a decision. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of this aspect of health and pharmaceutical services and prepares them for it. Practitioner evidence points the same way: epidemic response planning improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for this part of health and pharmaceutical services. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda and under-invest in testing it. The course gives participants a defensible structure for epidemic response planning and the judgement to adapt it. Participants finish able to explain this area of health and pharmaceutical services to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this aspect of health and pharmaceutical services ready to put in front of a decision maker.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Compare the organisation's handling of epidemic response planning with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.

  • Apply regulatory and licensing requirements governing epidemic response planning.

  • Integrate epidemic response planning into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

  • Protect patient confidentiality and data within epidemic response planning.

  • Plan staffing and rota cover appropriate to demand in epidemic response planning.

  • Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on epidemic response planning.

  • Build a register of the risks attaching to epidemic response planning and keep it current.

Who Should Attend

  • Pharmacists and pharmacy managers involved in epidemic response planning.

  • Regulatory affairs specialists handling epidemic response planning.

  • Accreditation and compliance officers preparing evidence on epidemic response planning.

  • Consultants and advisers supporting clients on epidemic response planning.

  • Finance managers costing services delivered through epidemic response planning.

  • Quality staff verifying that epidemic response planning performs as designed.

Course Modules

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01

Epidemic response planning: medication and treatment safety

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The decisions in epidemic response planning that cannot be delegated

  • Confirm the incident reporting route for epidemic response planning is quick and non-punitive.
  • Confirm competence and continuing development for staff delivering epidemic response planning.
  • Confirm licensing and regulatory requirements applying to epidemic response planning are met.
  • Agree what will be standardised in epidemic response planning and what will not.

Session 2Choosing indicators for epidemic response planning that reflect outcome

  • Identify infection transmission risks created by epidemic response planning and control them.
  • Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in epidemic response planning.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in epidemic response planning.
  • Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through epidemic response planning.
02

Epidemic response planning: supply, cold chain and availability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Consent, confidentiality and ethics in epidemic response planning

  • Close out actions on epidemic response planning rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving epidemic response planning.
  • Measure patient experience of epidemic response planning and feed it back to the team.
  • Benchmark the organisation's epidemic response planning against comparable operations.

Session 2Keeping supply and cold chain reliable for epidemic response planning

  • Name a single owner for each element of epidemic response planning.
  • Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for epidemic response planning.
  • Cost epidemic response planning per episode and identify avoidable waste.
  • Identify single points of dependency in epidemic response planning and reduce them.
03

Epidemic response planning: clinical process design and workflow

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Auditing epidemic response planning at the bedside, not in the binder

  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of epidemic response planning current.
  • Test the procedure for epidemic response planning against a realistic scenario.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of epidemic response planning before proposing changes.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to epidemic response planning.

Session 2Investigating an adverse event involving epidemic response planning

  • Plan continuity of epidemic response planning during surge and outbreak conditions.
  • Reduce unwarranted variation in epidemic response planning between shifts and sites.
  • Audit epidemic response planning by observing practice, not by reading policy.
  • Check that consent processes within epidemic response planning are genuinely informed.
04

Epidemic response planning: incident reporting, investigation and learning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading the current state of epidemic response planning honestly

  • Compare the cost of epidemic response planning with the cost of its absence.
  • Verify six months later that changes to epidemic response planning have held.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains epidemic response planning to those affected.
  • Arrange the handover of epidemic response planning so capability survives staff changes.

Session 2The cost of epidemic response planning and how to present it

  • Match staffing levels on epidemic response planning to measured demand across the week.
  • Build medication safety checks into epidemic response planning at the point of highest risk.
  • Define the trigger that would require epidemic response planning to be redesigned.
  • Identify where judgement in epidemic response planning is legitimate and where it is not.

Choose the package that suits you

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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