Course: Leadership for Healthcare Improvement and Innovation

Thank you for completing this final week of the course. In this week our objective was to highlight the critical role that patients and the public might play in assisting …

Here we look at how developing effective MCNs is not a simple, mechanistic quick fix. Rather, it is a process that requires effort to engage with front-line health professionals to …

Here we turn to the notion of organisational ‘spaces’ that might facilitate the development of networks and promote learning and exchange of ideas. In this short lecture, Professor Gerry McGivern, …

Now we will look at the example of how managed clinical networks (MCNs) can have a potentially transformational impact on changing practice and raising standards. As we saw earlier, MCNs …

Here we will explore the implementation of networks in the Australian state of New South Wales. Specifically, we look at networks that involve not just clinical professionals but also organisations …

Here we turn to the topic of clinical networks and how networks that link practitioners together, both within and between organisations, may foster innovation in healthcare. This step also builds …

In this video we focus on the question of how to foster and sustain innovation in healthcare. The benefits of innovation are plain to see, both with regard to new …

Here we turn to the question of how innovations in healthcare service provision are sustained over time. While considerable attention is given to the front end of innovation, less attention …

Thank you for completing Week 5 of the course. In this week we focused on the question of how innovations in healthcare arise and how knowledge about promising practices that …

Here we consider some of the barriers and facilitators to lean implementation in healthcare. Please watch the short interview clip with Professor Amrik Shoal, Monash University. In previous steps, we …

Here we explore the issue of how organisational innovations in the design of hospitals might have positive impacts on the quality of care and patient outcomes. Please watch the video …

Here we will introduce the concept of one of the most popular QI methods used in healthcare at the moment: lean. You should listen to the short lecture by Dr …

Here we will look at how lean implementation can be made more strategic and systems-focused. We look specifically at a strategic model of lean implementation at Eastern Health, a large …

We start this week by returning to the concept of quality improvement (QI) (first mentioned in Week 1) and the range of tools and techniques that have been associated with …