Transforming and Leading in Healthcare

Entry requirements

All students must be working in an appropriate environment in order to fully engage with the chosen modules.

Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or a 60 credit Level 6 award in an appropriate subject area.

Or a minimum of five years’ experience in a relevant healthcare area and evidence of successfully completed Level 6 study within the preceding two years.

Or a minimum of five years’ experience in a relevant healthcare area and submit a 2,000-3,000 word discursive essay. This will be marked at Level 6 and will need to meet the pass mark of 40% in order for an offer to be made. The essay title and further information will be sent to eligible students on application.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This programme aims to equip students who are front line clinicians or have roles in management and leadership in healthcare. As health care provision becomes increasingly complex, with greater demand for services and more people with multiple long term conditions plus the shortages of skilled professionals, there is a growing importance on how health care needs to improve and transform.

This Masters (MSc) Transforming and Leading Health Care is designed as a multi­disciplinary programme for professionals and managers leading across both health. As health care provision becomes increasingly complex, with greater demand for services and more people with multiple long term conditions plus the shortages of skilled professionals, there is a growing importance on how health care components (workforce/politics/economics/ accreditation) need to improve and transform.

The overall aim of this programme is for you to continue to develop yourself and your leadership and management skills by understanding and reflecting on people and team’s behaviours and their effect on an organisation’s development and its ability to improve. The programme explores global health challenges and their relevance to your everyday practice. This will develop your research and leadership skills to enhance your critical thinking.

This programme’s core modules can be studied individually or can be combined into a Postgraduate Certificate. You can study three additional modules and gain a Postgraduate Diploma, and to achieve a Masters Degree you are also required to undertake the Dissertation module.

Information for international students

A certified IELTS score of 6 with no element below 5.5 or equivalent.

Fees and funding