Evidence-Based Health Care Programme

 

Need and demand versus limited resources in healthcare:
how can we close the gap?

19 – 23 June 2017

Led by Professor Sir Muir Gray

Scholarships worth £2,110 – apply by 29 May 2017

Find out more from Oxford Continuing Education

We are offering full-fee Scholarships for exceptional applicants for Oxford’s new postgraduate accredited short course – Healthcare Value.

Led by Sir Muir Gray, the course encourages a critical understanding of the case for a paradigm shift to value-based health and social care.

Healthcare Value Overview

Tremendous progress has been made over the last forty years due to the second healthcare revolution, with the first healthcare revolution having been the public health revolution of the nineteenth century.
What is needed to increase value is to continue with good general management and leadership and with the specific processes that have increased effectiveness and value in previous decades namely good general management and leadership and four activities:

• Preventing disease, disability, dementia and frailty to reduce need
• Improving outcome by providing cost effective, evidence based interventions
• Improving outcome by increasing quality and safety of process
• Increasing productivity by reducing cost

 

Who is it for?

• healthcare managers
• healthcare commissioners
• clinicians and researchers
• educators
• patient representatives
• professionals in the health technology and pharmaceutical industries

 

Find out more

The answer to this key question facing every health service is to focus on value.

This new course is designed to help you understand value – both at the individual and societal levels, where the best allocation and use of resources is paramount – and to apply this to the service in which you work and the population you serve.

The course draws on the methods and experience of work done in the NHS England RightCare programme, and on leading edge work in Wales, Scotland and Europe.

Programme details

This accredited short course is run over an eight week cycle where the first week is spent working on introductory activities using a Virtual Learning Environment, the second week is spent in Oxford for the face to face teaching week (this takes place on the dates advertised), there are then four Post-Oxford activities (delivered through the VLE) which are designed to help you write your assignment. You then have a week of personal study and you will be required to submit your assignment electronically the following week (usually on a Tuesday at 14:00 UK Local Time).

The last date for receipt of complete applications is 5pm Friday 2nd June 2017. Regrettably, late applications cannot be accepted.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the Rewley House Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite, study-bedrooms have been rated as 4-Star Campus accommodation under the Quality In Tourism scheme, and come with tea- and coffee-making facilities, free Wi-Fi access and Freeview TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.

Scholarship

Scholarships are available for this Accredited Short Course for applicants wishing to take the course for credit. The Scholarship will cover the full cost of tuition fees (£2,110) but excludes the cost of travel, accommodation and subsistence. The student is expected to cover these costs.
The deadline for scholarship applications for this accredited short course is Monday 29 May 2017.

Tutors
Sir Muir Gray
Course Coordinator

Sir Muir Gray is a doctor, who has held senior positions in screening, public health and information management. He was director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority and supported the United Kingdom Centre of the Cochrane Collaboration in promoting evidence-based medicine. He held the positions of director at the UK National Screening Committee, during which he helped pioneer Britain’s breast and cervical cancer screening programmes, and National Library for Health, and director of Clinical Knowledge Process and Safety for the NHS National Programme for IT. He was knighted in 2005 for the development of the foetal, maternal and child screening programme and the creation of the National Library for Health. He is now the director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer to the National Health Service, a Director of the healthcare rating and review service iWantGreatCare and is Public Health Director of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare. He is also one of the original authors of the IDEAL framework for surgical innovation.