Creative Problem Solving: Design Thinking in Health and Social Care

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Course overview

Provider
Futurelearn
Course type
Free trial availiable
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Course author
Chris Howroyd

Description

Learn how design thinking can be applied in health and social care settings to drive innovation and approach challenges.
Explore how design thinking can be applied in health and social care

Healthcare systems face many issues: increasing demand, limited budgets, and major health challenges like ageing populations. New approaches are needed to ensure healthcare systems are working as well as they can.

Design thinking is an innovative approach that offers valuable strategies for creating ‘user-centred care’. On this course you will learn the core principles of design thinking including visualisation, iteration, and collaboration. You will explore how it can be applied to the healthcare sector, analysing recent case studies across a range of health and social care settings.

Creative Problem Solving: Design Thinking in Health and Social Care
  • English language

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