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Students will explore challenges inherent in continuous improvement of health and social care service. Deming's profound knowledge will be used as a framework for exploring quality improvement techniques in the context of policy and regulatory contexts. Ethical and legal dilemmas will be explored as they relate to conflicts between delivery of quality services, user demand and cost containment. Students will also explore formal and informal methods to assess local readiness improvement projects. The course will also consider how to improve at scale and how to sustain local quality improvements over time.