2024 - Module 3 - How to design population based systems and deliver care through networks

This is the third of the five modules in our online learning opportunity to help you develop the understanding and skill to:

  • Improve healthcare systems by increasing value and reducing waste (Module 1)
  • Shift the focus from bureaucracies to populations (Module 2)
  • Design population based systems and deliver care through networks (Module 3)
  • Create a culture of stewardship (Module 4)
  • Optimise personal value (Module 5)

As a result of learning from this module, you will be able:

  • To define what is meant by a system and how systems relate to programmes and programme budgets
  • To show how the concept of systems relates to those of integrated care, accountable care organisations and accountable care systems
  • To design a well scoped system specification with an aim, objectives and criteria
  • To outline the different types of criteria or measures that can be used to monitor progress towards meeting system objectives
  • To explain how systems can increase the technical value of a health service
  • To describe how networks relate to bureaucracies and deliver the objectives set out in the system’s specification
  • To define the term ‘action learning’ and the role of a community of practice


Your Instructor


Professor Sir Muir Gray
Professor Sir Muir Gray

Muir is the Founder of OVSP.

Muir’s work focuses on providing training and skills development to healthcare professionals in value-based and population healthcare. Muir is a world authority on value, population healthcare, systems and culture.

Sir Muir has worked for the National Health Service in England since 1972, occupying a variety of senior positions during that time, including serving as the Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority, and first establishing and then being the Director of the UK National Screening Committee. He founded the National Library for Health, and was the Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process, and Safety for the NHS (England) National Programme for IT, serving as the Director of the National Knowledge Service. He was the first person to hold the post of Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (England), also serving as the co-director of the Department of Health’s Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Right Care Programme.


Course Curriculum


  How to design population based systems and deliver care through networks
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