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Vocational Training (VT) Programme for Healthcare professionals
Intermedical Healthcare Services VT programme is a partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery. The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health are honoured to hold the designation as Scotland's only World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Education, Research and Practice. This cross cultural and international focus offers us the opportunity to influence Health Care provision worldwide.
The VT Programme of Intermedical Healthcare Services will consist of training deliverables around a number of key areas of nursing education and services including updating existing nursing curriculums by offering scoping, evaluation and delivery within its portfolio of services to academic universities. The overall goal will be to ensure that nursing practice in academic universities is maintained at international standards of practice. By assuring this level of quality care, these institutions will be able to distinguish itself as centers of medical excellence
The implementation of the VT Programme will consist of three components:
1. Short Term Vocational Training- This training is conducted from 3 days to one week including the following steps:
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Evaluation - An evaluation of existing services will first be undertaken. This will serve to yield baseline information for short-course development
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Delivery Stage - After evaluation, Intermedical Healthcare Services and the academic university will work together to draft short courses for healthcare professionals within the hospitals.
2. Long Term Vocational Training - Long Term Vocational Training consist of 18 months to 3 years courses provided by Intermedical Healthcare Services in partnership with UK academic universities. This type of training will follow similar steps as above.
3. Upgrading and developing the Nursing Curriculum of Medical Universities - In partnership with UK academic universities, Intermedical Healthcare Services can aid these institutions to increase the level of their education to an international standard. This would require the following steps:
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Scoping Exercise: This requires the analysis of the current level of the education given to the nursing students within the academic university in the country. A Scoping Exercise could last from 3 to 4 months
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Delivery of Courses: Once the scoping exercise is completed Intermedical Healthcare Services and the academic university will create courses to deliver to international universities.
Health Excel
The need for quality assurance in healthcare service delivery has become a critical challenge for health authorities across the globe. Major changes in healthcare as a whole, and patient expectations in particular, are forcing health service providers to face the challenge of keeping up with healthcare advances while simultaneously ensuring that increasing demands for quality are met.
In direct response to this challenge, Intermedical Healthcare offers its Health Excel quality solution. Through Health Excel, we will partner with governments so as to ensure excellence in the quality of their health service delivery. Together with our sub-contractors, we will work to bring public sector hospital services to international levels of care, and will also help to establish permanent structures through which the quality management of entire health systems can be sustained.
A critical part of the Health Excel programme is the ISO 9001 certification assessment process. ISO 9001 certification provides a quality framework, which involves all services and departments and all levels of staff. Implementation of the standards leads to service developments and improvements across the organisation. Benefits from this process include:
- improved communication and team-working across the organization
- all policies and procedures reviewed and up to date
- good practice recognised and shared
- all staff working to a deadline for action on quality
- confidence in organizational systems
- improved knowledge and systems for risk management
- better understanding and practical application of patient safety requirements
- improved systems for mandatory training and appraisal
- readiness for inspection by external bodies
- recognition by patients of the ISO certification ’quality tick