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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...Health mandated reporting standards for use in emergency departments that measured the care and the time patients spent in the emergency department with timestamps and reporting requirements throughout the patient's journey? So the question I answered for my project or, rather, the project focus was literally looking at the threats coming from the external environment....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...health settings suggest its impact on clinical and educational outcomes is unclear, with some researchers suggesting benefits can arise from a group’s unified position (DiPierro et al, 2022). Even if the existence of groupthink can be questioned, there is less doubt about the existence of power structures within group contexts that marginalise (or maintain the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...health of the Fynbos. Fire clears away old vegetation, releasing important minerals to the soil. For proteas, the intense heat and smoke are also crucial catalysts for the next generation. Within hours of the fire passing, millions of seeds are released to the wind to await the next winter rains. Video 3 Fynbos on fire. The commentator mentions that fire is important in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997, unemployment stood at 37%, and 50% of the population was classified as ‘poor’. With...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...Health Service four and a half million pounds in cash. They send thousands of people away on holiday. They do an immense amount of work. And I mean that’s just one organisation. If you look at what two hundred and forty thousand of these organisations turning over what fifteen billion a year, somebody’s estimate of the value of the work they do if you had to pay for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...health. Finally, there is an informal blindness system which consists of services provided by no established agencies, but by families, friends and neighbours. Adapted from Schon (1971) The passage in Box 2 illustrates a number of points of considerable importance. First, the system described is not solely comprised of tangible elements – departments, people, workshops,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...health services in the UK are different from the institutions that contribute to the reduction of poverty in the Indian sub-continent, which in turn are different from the institutions designed to create liberal capitalism in eastern Europe, or those set up to address problems related to HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and so on. It is worth noting, though, that such is the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...health-care industry will be underestimated if all that is counted is patient throughput or treatment episodes, without accounting for the extent to which consumers enjoy better treatment. Quality improvements in health care include better diagnosis, new medical equipment and less invasive treatments. Another example is provided in a study cited by The Economist (2000)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs