Certified Health Quality Professional
The Certified Health Quality Professional course offered by OXQUAL develops advanced knowledge for improving quality, patient safety and organisational performance within healthcare environments. The programme focuses on quality-management systems, clinical governance, performanc...
About this qualification
The Certified Health Quality Professional course offered by OXQUAL develops advanced knowledge for improving quality, patient safety and organisational performance within healthcare environments. The programme focuses on quality-management systems, clinical governance, performance measurement, risk management and continual improvement.
Career-focused
Develop relevant skills and knowledge that can support your next professional step.
What you'll cover
Key topics covered in this OXQUAL programme include:
- Foundations of Healthcare Quality Management
- Role of Healthcare Quality Professionals
- Healthcare Systems and Quality Frameworks
- Healthcare Accreditation Awareness
- Patient Safety
- Healthcare Risk Management
- Incident Reporting
- Adverse-Event Prevention
- Quality Improvement Methodologies
- Lean and Six Sigma Awareness
- PDSA Cycles
- Root Cause Analysis
- Performance Measurement
- Healthcare KPIs
- Benchmarking and Dashboards
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Clinical Governance
- Healthcare Compliance
- Leadership and Change Management
- Healthcare Ethics and Patient Rights
- Quality Innovation
- Digital-Health Improvement Awareness
- Healthcare Quality Capstone Project
Who it's designed for
This OXQUAL programme is suitable for:
- Healthcare Quality Managers
- Quality Officers
- Clinical Governance Professionals
- Hospital Administrators
- Healthcare Department Heads
- Healthcare Consultants and Auditors
What you'll gain
Successful completion of this OXQUAL programme can help learners to:
- Develop advanced healthcare-quality knowledge.
- Strengthen patient-safety and risk-management practices.
- Apply structured quality-improvement methodologies.
- Use performance data and KPIs more effectively.
- Improve clinical-governance awareness.
- Develop stronger healthcare leadership and change-management skills.
- Support continual improvement of healthcare services.
How this qualification is assessed
The assessment pattern for this OXQUAL programme is outlined below.
- Assessment Type: Written examination, project submission and practical evaluation.
- Format: Multiple-choice questions, essay questions, applied case study and capstone project.
- Total Questions: 80 theory questions plus 1 case study and 1 project.
- Passing Score: 70%.
- Written Duration: 3 hours.
- Project Submission: 4 weeks.
- Certification: Certified Health Quality Professional (CHQP) Certificate upon successful completion.
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