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School of Nursing and Midwifery

2024/25

Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care (MSc)

LMGHS001 [Programme]

180 Credits

7

Course overview

Develop the skills to improve care and health outcomes in the UK and worldwide on this MSc Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care. Our master’s will boost your leadership, managerial, and organisational skills.

 

We'll prepare you to direct strategy and tactics as a health and social care leader of the future. You'll also join a globally recognised healthcare community ranked 2nd in the UK and 6th in the World for Nursing (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023).

 

This flexible healthcare management master’s course is ideal if you want to lead medical, health or social care teams at the highest levels. You’ll learn how to inspire the people and organisations you work with to get the best from them. It’s suitable for clinicians and non-clinicians from a range of backgrounds.

 

You'll learn modern approaches to leadership, with learning on self-leadership, leading teams, and leading organisations and systems. The Research Methods module prepares you for the dissertation and research projects in your workplace. We'll teach you how to use the latest research to take an evidence-based approach to improving care.


Assessment

Assessment methods may include:

 

  • designing policies, rules, pathways or strategies
  • building a business case for service redesign
  • evaluating a new or existing service or intervention
  • completing a critical incident analysis
  • analysing a problem in your own work environment
  • interviewing co-workers, superiors, and/or clients
  • reviewing and critically evaluating research

 

We encourage you to choose an assessment approach that has meaning to you and which you can immediately apply to your work.

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Prerequisites

If you're applying for the full time master's course, you need a 2.2 honours degree in a relevant subject from a clinical, health, science or social science background.

 

Three years' work experience is helpful, but not necessary.

Funding

£1,500.00

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Course details

Course leader

Prof Peter Mayhew

Telephone

01542 336210

Course delivery

Classroom teaching with some online learning.

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