Healthcare Leadership and Management (Online)

Entry requirements

2:2 in a healthcare related degree or 2 years professional experience in healthcare.

Months of entry

September

Course content

• Study contemporary approaches to leadership and management in healthcare, including resource management, quality improvement, leading change and health and care policy
• Fully online, part-time study designed to fit around demanding healthcare roles, with flexible asynchronous delivery.
• Learn alongside clinical and managerial professionals working in the NHS and wider healthcare systems.
• Apply theory to real-world challenges drawn from your own experience and using NHS, global healthcare and commercial sector case studies.

Course content

Contemporary healthcare requires skilled leadership and management to address complexity, resource constraints and rapid change. This online MSc in Healthcare Leadership and Management develops the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to become an effective and compassionate leader of evolving healthcare services.

You will evaluate and apply theory in healthcare leadership, resource management, policy, resourcing, quality improvement and implementation science to real-world challenges. Learning is grounded in comparative case studies from the NHS, global healthcare systems and the commercial sector, enabling you to critically assess different models and their relevance to the UK healthcare context.

With a strong focus on future healthcare needs, you will explore complex systems, digital health and data analytics to improve care quality, health equity and public health outcomes. Flexible online delivery allows you to study part-time alongside professional practice.

Information for international students

International students need to show they have the required level of English language to study this course.

Fees and funding

Applicants who are a resident of Devon and Cornwall may be eligible for a £3,000 scholarship towards tuition fees. For further details, including eligibility criteria, speak to our team.

For more information, please see our dedicated webpage: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/masters/funding-your-masters/