| Module description | QI |
| Delivered by | Leicester School of Pharmacy (De Montfort University) |
| Degree level and credit | Postgraduate level 7 |
| Delivery mode | Online distance learning, with tutor support and three interactive face-to-face events. |
| Duration | Six (6) months |
| Indicative content/ areas of study | Clinical pharmacy management: health policy, healthcare organisation and management. Audit techniques. Clinical governance and how it relates to pharmaceutical services including training and auditing to drive service enhancement. Risk management, dispensing and medication errors, the causes, theory and investigation of medication errors. Service operation and delivery – service improvement, models of pharmacy practice, quality management theory and performance.
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| Learning outcomes | Critically review, using quality management methods, the provision of a chosen pharmaceutical service or provision. Appraise the strengths and weakness of the current service. Devise a proposal, based on critical review and appraisal, to enable the service to be enhanced. Assess clinical governance principles, risk management and local and/ or national policies and priorities relating to the service. Generate and implement SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound), improvements to the chosen service. Plan the assessment or reaudit of the improved service. Critically analyse operational and personal development.
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| Assessment | 3000-word report Portfolio of evidence
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