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Leading or managing clinical governance? We can help

If you’ve been designated to lead or manage clinical governance, if you are an optometric advisor or if you are setting up a local enhanced service, this qualification is intended to help you evaluate and lead your organisation or service and ensure appropriate support for governance and assurance functions.

We work with clinical leaders, at all stages in their careers. Our highly-regarded course covers key issues in clinical governance and includes three compulsory modules on leadership, legal aspects of practice and audit.

The certificate is made up of three compulsory modules:

Leadership is lead by Gill Brabner and Jane Gray: Gill Brabner joined the Local Optical Committee Support Unit in 2010 as Director of Education & Training and continues to work for them as their Learning and Development Consultant. Jane Gray has taken an active role as Clinical Governance lead within the East Yorkshire LOC. She is a trained coach and facilitator and provides facilitation training for the College of Optometrists and LOCSU ILM Coaching qualification.

For the Legal aspects module we are proud to have two expert leads Peter Hampson is AOP Clinical Director and Trevor Warburton is Clinical Advisor to AOP Legal Services. Both have experience of assisting in both civil and GOC disciplinary cases. Between them they have a wealth of knowledge of optical legislation and regulation and if they don't know an answer they probably know where to find it!

Evidence based practice and audit is led by Barbara Ryan, a director of WOPEC, and Trevor Warburton, a director of Greater Manachesr Primary Eye Care Ltd and Chair of the Confederation of GM LOCs. They both feel that there is not enough audit taking place in community optometry and this course is designed to help with remedying that. Whilst audit of community services is becoming more common, internal practice or personal audits are less common but extremely valuable. Audits do not need to be complex and this course will help you conduct one.

Here's what one of our students had to say about the Clinical Audit module:

"The clinical audit course was exactly what I needed to assist me with my role as a clinical lead for extended primary care eye services. The course content was relevant and the support from the tutors was second to none." Wendy Craven, Clinical Governance & Performance Lead GM Primary Eyecare.

We are accepting admissions now for these courses for a start date of September 2017 for Audit and Legal and March 2018 for Leadership. To find out more about enrolling please email pgoptom@cardiff.ac.uk or call us on 029 2087 0561.

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