About this course

Learning Health Systems embed continuous improvement into the process of delivering health care. This pathway brings key topics together.

By definition a Learning Health System embeds continuous improvement into the process of delivering health care. To achieve this requires a range of skills, competencies and health data science knowledge. The course has been curated with subject matter experts across numerous Higher Education institutions, those in clinical practice, public and patient contributor, NHS England, HDR UK and The Health Foundation.

It designed for all career stages and roles.

The purpose of this pathway is to create a single place of easily digestible learning resources that cover a variety of topics to help you design, develop and implement a learning health system. It includes course materials, case studies, guidance and an immersive simulation of a learning health system.

These cover relevant topics such as interoperability, working with data, socio-technical frameworks to help manage challenges when embedding data-driven approaches and insight on different tools and technologies. In addition, to help you bring these concepts to life, there are real world case studies from Health Foundation report on Learning Heath Systems.

Instructors

Alan Davies

Senior Lecturer

University of Manchester

Dr Davies has co-led a highly successful set of workshops on hea... Read more

Alastair Denniston

Co-Director

HDR UK Midlands

Alastair Denniston is Co-Director of HDR UK Midlands and Consult... Read more

Iliada Eleftheriou

Lecturer

University of Manchester

Dr Eleftheriou is a lecturer in Healthcare Sciences who has co-l... Read more