Course description
Do you want to deliver healthcare that is safe, consistent, and carries the lowest possible risk of adverse outcomes?
This Diploma in Patient Safety will show you how to provide safer, more efficient healthcare for your patients and how to lead the development of a safety culture within your workplace.
Applications welcome from all healthcare professionals, including
- RCPI Trainees
- All hospital doctors
- Nurses
- Allied healthcare professionals
- Senior management
- General practitioners
- Community health professionals
You will learn how to
- Provide safer, more efficient healthcare for your patients
- Reduce adverse events within the health system
- Understand and apply quality improvement methodologies to improve patient safety
- Design and lead a patient safety project at local service level
- Create the right conditions for a safety culture
- Increase your capability to influence and make change happen
- Identify, respond to, and learn from adverse events
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