Major advances in medical technology, increased expectations, and changing moral attitudes have combined to generate many complex ethical and legal problems in these areas. Individuals who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses can face particularly pressing and difficult moral choices. The course provides them with an opportunity to gain a deeper and more systematic understanding of these issues, and to explore the moral problems they may face in their work. It is specially structured so that it can be combined by practitioners in full-time employment.

Course Content:
Module 1: Ethics and Palliative Care
Module 2: Autonomy, Paternalism and Consent
Module 3: Quality of Life, Death, and Dying
Module 4: Contemporary Issues in the Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care

The course is directed towards the management needs of experienced professionals working in, or for, the health sectors of transitional economies/developing countries. It adopts a broad view of the health sector and examines those issues which contribute to, or influence, levels of health and social welfare in populations. Close attention is therefore given to the effects of social, economic and political policy, as well as to the reforms to health systems and services. The multi-disciplinary approach of this programme is focused on the creation and development of a new management cadre with emphasis on the development of practical skills and techniques relevant to modern management responsibilities.

Content:
1. Health Planning and Management
2. Health Economics and Financial Management
3. Human Resource Management
4. Health Information and Management Science
5. Marketing and Community Participation in Health

Course Administrator:
Sarah Newton
Tel: +44 (0)1782 583 191
Fax: +44 (0)1782 711 737
Emai: s.newton@keele.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/postgraduate/courses/healthpop.html
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Mr Peter Hornby, Programme Director,
Email: p.hornby@keele.ac.uk

Ms Sarah Newton
Tel: +44 (0)1782 583 191
Fax: +44 (0)1782 711 737
Email: s.newton@keele.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/postgraduate/courses/hrinhealth.html
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Mrs Ruby Greene, Programme Director

This two-day residential Foundation Programme focuses on your personal development as a clinical leader and manager. Through a mix of theory, self- analysis and practical work, it will challenge you to examine your own practice and enable you to gain knowledge, understanding and skills to improve your effectiveness.

The programme includes:

• examining the management and leadership “mind set” and what this means for you as a clinician
• a diagnostic process to give you deeper insight into your own approach and style, together with an opportunity to reflect upon, and discuss, leadership styles which have impact
• creating engagement through using effective influencing and negotiating techniques
• managing change and conflict in organisations
• a survival toolkit: managing time and stress.

You are supported during the programme by an experienced personal tutor, who facilitates activities and can provide one-to-one advice.

• Senior clinicians in primary and secondary care, who have responsibility for leading clinical teams and service departments
• Senior clinicians who have a corporate role within their organisations.

This is a foundation programme for people who have had no previous formal leadership development; it provides a platform on which to develop further knowledge and competencies in the future.

• Tuition fees: £475
• Accommodation and conference facilities (including all meals, refreshments and en-suite rooms at Keele Hall and Keele Management Centre): £120

Developing good governance at national and corporate level is vital, and is the subject of considerable attention, regulation and review at country, sector and organisation level. Governance needs to be effective at all levels and this is especially true within healthcare; from policy makers/ministers through to front line clinical staff.
Governance reforms should be seen as a lengthy process of continuous improvement, which goes beyond introducing new systems and requires new skills, attitudes and organisational
cultures. The 2007 Keele Summer School reflects this, with an ethos characterised by dialogue and capacity building. Delegates will be able to explore the challenges they face in developing
and embedding governance within and across their organisations and the event will offer practical advice to assist participants in strengthening governance systems in their organisations and health systems.

Key themes:

• What is Good Governance? Exploring Governance at International, National and Local Level
• Governance for Development
• The Challenge of Poor Governance and Corruption
• Corporate Structures, Roles and Responsibilities
• Managing Risk
• Leadership and Behaviours for Good Governance
• Bringing It All Together: Building a Governance Framework