Taught course
Integrated Healthcare Practice & Strategic Leadership
Entry requirements
Applicants should have a 2:2 Honours degree in a related subject from a recognised higher education institution.
Months of entry
October
Course content
Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership is designed for students who aspire to support, lead, and manage transformative health and social care provision contexts that seek to integrate a full range of hospital and community services, including local services, GP partnerships, local authorities and other health and social care and voluntary sector bodies within their service delivery model.
Key features
- The course is offered with PgCert, PgDip and MSc options. All the routes of the course have been recognised by the UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI); solidifying the student’s credentials as a leading authority to work with a range of providers in the broad context of delivering health services and able to provide business support for health-related programmes and projects
- Students who come on the course will be encouraged to adopt a critical lens in understanding the role of digital care records, the role of single assessment care plans, the challenges of planning cost effective funding, joined up care and managing the high-risk scientific messages aimed at improving health outcomes
Career opportunities
The range of career opportunities across the newly constructed Integrated Care Boards is increasing exponentially for those with these essential healthcare leadership skills including understanding of technological developments, regulatory change, new equitable and collaborative systems of information and creating value for money. Critical leadership competencies to make complex decisions in the fast-evolving strategic spaces now emerging in the context of delivering and strengthening integrated health and social care provisions will be developed and required by employers.
Areas of study may include:
- Collaborative leadership for integrated care systems and practices
- Strategic management and leadership of organisational mental health and wellbeing
- The principles and application of health economics
- Health informatics
- Health and social care inequalities
Information for international students
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Fees and funding
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Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PGCert
- full time15 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- MSc
- full time15 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- PGDip
- full time15 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
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