Overview
We examine the role of leaders and advanced governance principles for quality and safety. You will learn how to build a culture of high performance, innovation, reform, and safety.

Evolve with QUTeX
You will learn how to:
- apply knowledge of the international, national and local health care, leadership models and quality and safety frameworks, to improve patient safety and health care quality
- critically analyse the impact of leadership, teamwork and culture on innovation, reform and performance management related to quality and patient safety
Who should participate?
This course is ideal if you are a health care manager, quality manager, in a position of leadership within a health care setting, or considering a career change in the area of quality and safety improvement.

Your expert facilitator Paula Bowman
Paula Bowman is a senior lecturer in the Master of Health Management program at QUT. She also teaches clinical risk management at Flinders University in Adelaide and in China through a joint program with Nankai University. She has 27 years experience in the health care sector - 16 years working as a clinician and clinical manager in acute hospital services and in private practice and more recently 11 years working as a senior executive with Queensland Health. Paula’s expertise covers the areas of: operational, project and program leadership, health policy analysis, workforce and clinical service planning, leading and managing clinical practice and health service improvement and design and delivery of education and training programs.
Learn more about Paula BowmanCore concepts
The course covers:
- strategic leadership for quality and safety in different health care settings and across the organization
- clinical governance challenges
- quality system design
- engaging clinicians in quality improvement
- driving improvement through change and innovation
- designing improvement projects.
Details
Where and when
Content will be delivered through a blend of live and pre-recorded sessions which can accessed through Blackboard (QUT’s online learning platform). Blackboard provides the opportunity to consolidate learning through peer collaboration and discussion with course convenors. The 4 days is indicative of the amount of total time needed to dedicate to your learning, the lectures and content can be covered at your leisure.
Flexible deadlines for the optional assessment can be negotiated with the Course Convenor.
2021 program dates to be confirmed, to register your interest and be kept up-to-date please email qutex@qut.edu.au.
Certification
If you undertake and complete the Workshop and Assessment course, you'll receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of the assessment. This can be used to apply for advanced standing in a related award course.
Cost
Workshop Only
Registration type | Investment |
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Earybird registration (closes TBC) | $2,008.60 (GST included) |
Standard registration | $2,231.77 (GST included) |
QUT Staff / Alumni registration | $1,673.83 (GST included) |
Australasian College of Health Service Managers (ACHSM) Members | $1,897.01 (GST included) |
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Workshop and Assessment
Registration type | Investment |
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Earlybird registration (closes TBC) | $2,510.75 (GST included) |
Standard registration | $2,789.72 (GST included) |
QUT Staff / Alumni registration | $2,092.29 (GST included) |
Australasian College of Health Service Managers (ACHSM) Members | $2,371.26 (GST included) |
More details
This program is shared by postgraduate students in Health, and may involve some collaboration between professional development participants and postgraduate students.
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