Leadership in Healthcare

Entry requirements

This course is ideal for anyone working in a healthcare role that needs leadership skills. You'll have a degree but this doesn't have to be in medicine.

As well as those already in healthcare leadership roles, this course is useful for GP practice managers, pharmacy managers, healthcare directorate managers and managers in pharmaceutical companies.

To secure your place on the course you typically need one of the following:

• A non-medical degree working in a healthcare role
• A medical degree
• Relevant professional healthcare (eg doctor, nurse) qualifications

All applications are assessed on an individual basis so if you don’t have one of the above your prior experience may be taken into account.

Months of entry

March, September

Course content

This one-year online Masters, run in partnership with Diploma MSc, is ideal for anyone working in a healthcare role that needs leadership skills, such as GP practice managers, pharmacy managers, healthcare directorate managers and managers in pharmaceutical companies. It will develop advanced knowledge of organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate.

You will learn how to apply a variety of leadership and management theories and philosophies to complex situations in healthcare settings, and how to harness the human resource potential within healthcare organisations.

This Masters qualification will develop a knowledge of research methods and techniques as well as the personal and theoretical strategies required to bring about change.

The Leadership in Healthcare Masters course provides a progression route from the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership in Healthcare.

Information for international students

The course welcomes international applicants and requires an English level of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component or equivalent.