2021 Curriculum learning syllabus: stage 3

Published: 23/02/2021

Management and Professional and Regulatory Requirements

Stage learning outcome

  • Understands and undertakes managerial, administrative and organisational roles expected of consultants

Key capabilities

A

Explains how the management system and organisational structures at Trust/Health Board level communicate and co-operate

B

Describes the structure and organisation of the NHS including primary care, the community and independent sectors and the wider health and social care landscape

C

Explains the national processes by which health policy are developed, promoted, disseminated, introduced, monitored and modified, and how services are held accountable to the public

D

Appreciates the roles and practice of different professionals in the organisation and delivery of the health service by promoting inter-professional understanding and working

E

Describes mechanisms for workforce planning and their limitations

F

Applies management and team skills to complex and dynamic situations

G

Describes how healthcare systems are commissioned and funded

H

Knows how to prepare medicolegal statements and co-operate with agencies involved in legal requirements

I

Works within regulations relating to information governance, data protection and storage

J

Undertakes departmental administrative and managerial roles

K

Engages with their own contractual obligations, appraisal and quality review processes

Examples of evidence

 Experience & logbook:
  • leadership of Anaesthetic Departmental activities.
Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) can be used to demonstrate:
  • management and team leadership skills with complex cases such as in theatres, pre-operative assessment clinics, obstetrics and intensive care.
Personal Activities and Personal Reflections may include:
  • management responsibility in the anaesthetic department
  • roles in regional training programme  such as trainee representative
  • rota management for anaesthetists in training
  • attendance at hospital/trust board level meetings
  • training sessions with members of senior management such as clinical directors, medical directors, Trust Chief Executive
  • courses and e-Learning: NHS structure and management, information governance, skills to manage difficult interactions, mastering risk
  • training and involvement in investigation of serious incidents
  • involvement in writing a report for the Coroner or other medicolegal indication
  • experience of healthcare systems outside of the UK
  • awareness of relevant government health policies.

Cross links with other domains and capabilities

  • Professional Behaviours and Communication
  • Team Working
  • Safety and Quality Improvement
  • Education and Training
  • all specialty specific domains.