How to Manage: Leadership and Practice in Health Improvement

What is the course about?

Health improvement and health promotion are vital components of a functioning health system, but are often neglected in service provision and professional training.

This course aims to give paediatricians the clinical tools, background knowledge and advocacy levers to improve child health, in doing so covering the content of domain 5 of the RCPCH Progress curriculum:

• Promotes healthy behaviour, including giving advice, from early years to adulthood
• Takes into account the potential impact of cultural, social, religious and economic factors on child and family health
• Demonstrates leadership in the promotion of health and wellbeing practices in the wider community

Target Audience

• Paediatric Trainees
• SAS doctors
• Consultant Paediatric Cardiologists/ General Consultant Paediatricians
• Paediatricians with an interest in Cardiac medicine
• AHP’s working in Paediatric Cardiology

Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:

Aim:

This study day will enable you to understand the wider determinants of your patients’ health and the role that health professionals can play in supporting families to improve their health outcomes.

Outcome:

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Describe how environmental factors, including parenting, family dynamics, wider social and cultural factors, as well as the physical environment impact on health outcomes in the UK. (linked to level 1 a&b)
• Outline how people make choices and decisions
• Develop understanding of the impact of professional communication on successful behaviour change through lens of unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, stigma and how to mitigate this (linked to level 2 a)
• Practical understanding of how and why to enquire about what factors are impacting on a family, beyond immediate health
• Use this to develop skills in how to advise families about making changes for better health
• Describe how to bring community level data into your clinical work. (linked to level 3a)
• Outline the role of health professionals in advocating and leading with regard to wider determinants of health (linked to level 3)
• Advise other professionals on the impact of social inequalities on health outcomes and advocate for children, young people and their families outside the clinical environment. (linked to level 3)
• Enquire about local policy and practices that impact on children, young people and their families in your area (linked to level 3)
• Discuss the role of health professionals in influencing and guiding wider policy beyond direct healthcare (linked to level 3, domain 2)

Faculty Lead