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Our range of courses covers all areas of Management Development.
All Medicology courses are specific to healthcare and the NHS. We believe that the NHS is a unique environment
requiring specific insight into its unique issues. Trusting your development to a commercial training company would be
much like having your BMW serviced by the Citroen garage.
Every Medicology course can be brought in-house
with costs starting from £1,650 + VAT per day plus expenses for up to 25 people, based on you providing the facilities
and us providing the expertise.
Leading people through change is probably the toughest job facing any leader, whether clinical or managerial, even with formal training. In the absence of that training, it is positively a minefield. Covering everything from planning an effective change process to ensuring full engagement of the staff, we help you achieve your change goals with minimal disruption to performance and the fastest possible return to normal. We’ll show you how to assess risk, develop a change-supporting communication process and even deal with the inevitable change resistors.
This is a comprehensive course with lots of practical examples and an opportunity to practise and explore change strategies without risk. It is designed to give you substantial expertise in getting change right.
Welcome to the finest course available for specialist registrars approaching completion of training through to newer consultants of up to 3 years or so experience, designed to enable you to make a step change in your ability to be effective as a clinical leader and manager in your specialty. This course is designed to create exceptional clinical leaders ready for the challenges facing them and their services in the modern healthcare environment. It is packed with the knowledge and skills that you’ll need to competently achieve, as well as specialty-specific insight into the challenges you’ll be facing in the evolving health service.
The change from a principally learning doctor to a principally leading one is often a baptism of fire and yet with the right principles in place can be a smooth transition that leads to a life long exceptional career. This course is designed as an intensive submersion into the key areas necessary to succeed in to be an exceptional consultant. Covering everything from new found managerial responsibility to fiscal probity, risk, governance and even the business of health, it acts as a comprehensive framework packed with the practical application of core skills. A powerful kick-start to any consultant career.
Despite the vital nature of getting appraisals right, few have ever received training in how to set up and conduct appraisals effectively. Appraisals form an essential component of revalidation, recertification and relicensing and remain the core methodology for tying organisational priorities to individual goals, activities and competency. The appraisal itself can be a stressful experience for both appraise and appraiser, where effective communication skills are essential. This powerful course addresses all vital components in a comprehensive manner, leading to improved appraisal effectiveness, greater confidence and enhanced impacts on performance as a whole.
Clinical effectiveness is an absolute baseline in an increasingly competitive landscape. Dropping the clinical ball can result in adverse media attention and reputational risk, not to mention the distress to patients and impact on morale. Services need to compete on quality to ensure their enduring success, especially as the number of providers increases within a locality. This powerful programme focuses on what it takes to organise and lead services towards clinical excellence, dealing with both the risk and improvement sides of the equation in the context of a market economy.
Clinical Governance has become the backbone for ensuring that NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care, by creating an environment in which clinical excellence will flourish. Since its inception in 1998 its prominence has consistently grown and its profile widened to encompass an ever growing set of clinical and non-clinical influences. Despite this, many front line service providers feel inadequately equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to ensure that Clinical Governance delivers all that it promises. This practical, comprehensive and interactive 1-day course provides you with the essential knowledge and tools you need to drive forward service development and progression with increased quality and patient safety is at the heart and where the whole multidisciplinary team wants to be involved because of their recognition of the true benefits Clinical Governance delivers.
Developed in conjunction with a Senior NHS Finance Director, this course is designed for the many consultants, senior nurses and PAMs who would like NHS finance and business planning demystified to the point of being both understandable and manageable. With particularly emphasis on what it takes to be financially successful in today’s NHS environment, the course balances a detailed understanding of the principles and process of NHS money flow with the practical skills to operate successfully to ensure services survive and thrive in the new market economy.
The expectations on modern clinical services are immense against a backdrop of low morale and increased uncertainty. The service that does not effectively organise, utilise and manage its workforce is unlikely to have the capacity, efficiency and drive to produce the sort of performance that leads to success in the evolving landscape. This highly practical but immensely powerful programme is designed to help service leaders, consultants & senior professionals from across healthcare organise teams for maximum effectiveness with maximum motivation & morale. Absolutely essential.
Designed specifically for Specialty Doctors (Staff Grade & Associate Specialist) progressing towards consultanthood through Article 14 of PMETB, this powerful and enabling course takes you through the transmission from largely working in health to taking a leadership responsibility for it. The comprehensive programme is structured to assist you in developing the knowledge, insight and skills necessary to thrive in the very different role of consultant, covering leadership, management, our developing NHS, influencing skills and more, all essential to demonstrate you are ready to step up to the mark.
This course has been developed in response to demand from many career grade doctors, who we have worked with to define a programme that truly delivers in this unique context. Please note there is considerable overlap between this course and Core Skills for the Newer Consultant.
Suddenly in a responsible clinical role you find that all the technical & medical knowledge you've worked hard to gain is only part of the story when managing people. To progress effectively as a doctor it is essential that you develop competency as a manager and this is a key CV requirement for gaining a consultant post. This one-day comprehensive seminar covers all the essential topics in a practical way, to enable you to really develop your management skills in the clinical context.
There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing services and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people and huge budgets without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context. Comprehensive, fast paced and highly practical.
Without doubt, one of the most stressful roles a doctor performs is that of managing performance issues with juniors or even colleagues. Despite feeling like a minefield of legal principles, individual sensitivities and clinical governance, using the right approach coupled with effective skills results in rapid attainment or restoration of acceptable clinical standards and a doctor who will be grateful for the rest of their career. This comprehensive course is designed to allow consultants and managers to handle performance issues with confidence and in a supportive manner, ensuring that they are safe and the struggling doctor stands the best possible chance of succeeding.
An action-packed day designed to boost your ability to generate effective performance through people, irrespective of environment. We start with an in depth look at organisational performance and its key determinants, moving on to examine the fundamentals of motivation as well as how to manage poor performance both at an individual level and organisationally. This is a very powerful course that allows you to competently handle poor performance issues in a positive way, whilst creating an environment where good strong performance is the norm.
In our modern NHS it is vital that aspiring doctors demonstrate a clear commitment, sound understanding and practical application of the core principles of both management and leadership. Successful healthcare delivery is as dependent on effective management and leadership as it is on technical knowledge and skills. A highly motivated, well organised, aligned team, guided by a strong leader, has the ability to achieve no matter what the environment throws at them. That is what this course is designed to deliver - exceptional leaders with highly effective managerial ability, without ever losing sight of the fact that you are first and foremost doctors. Aligned closely with the Medical Leadership Competency Framework, jointly developed by The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, this comprehensive programme is designed to be a clear demonstration to any future employer of your management & leadership knowledge and abilities, as well as enhancing your ability to achieve through people at the highest possible level.
The NHS is likely to suffer a funding shortfall of around £15 billion in the three years post 2010/11 and consequently cost improvement can now be seen as a continual process, not an episodic activity. More importantly, it is vital that cost improvement is approached in an intelligent, collaborative manner with full regard for the necessity to deliver clinical excellence. This course enables those with responsibility for cost improvement to gain maximum returns with minimal negative impacts, whilst ensuring that patient care and staff morale remain at the heart of the process.