Target Audience/Eligibility Criteria
The Shared Decision Making e-learning package is suitable for all healthcare professionals, health improvement personnel and patient engagement representatives to inform and educate them on Shared Decision Making in order to embed it in day to day clinical practice. Shared Decision Making represents a cultural change in behaviour and this tool will aid and assist in changing an environment of medical paternalism to a more inclusive approach based on the 2012 Health Act ‘Liberating the NHS: ‘No decision about me without me’.
Course Aim
This module gives an overview of person centred care focusing on shared decision making, self-management support and motivational interviewing. It discusses the need for a change in current practice and provides healthcare professionals with information on the drivers for person centred care, the legal framework which supports it and the tools and resources to embed it within clinical practice.
Why use Shared Decision Making?
Increasingly, patients want to be involved in making decisions about their own healthcare, and research has shown that, when they do so, they select less hospital care and report better hospital experiences. Some of the benefits of Shared Decision Making are:
- Increased patient involvement and engagement
- Improved communication
- Reduction in complaints and litigation
- Ethical demand management
- Enhanced recovery
- Unwarranted variation
Making a Good Decision
SDM is not just about ensuring the patient is involved with the process, it is also about making sure the decision reached is a good decision. A good decision is one that is approached systematically, is based on reliable, evidenced-based information, and with time allowed to consider all the options carefully. The examples chosen are used to help get people to think about making good decisions.
Trainer/Facilitator
E-Learning for Healthcare
Date/Time/Venue
This training is e-learning so can be undertaken at any time.
Cost
This e-learning is free of charge
Booking Process/Additional Information
To access this training please follow this link.