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MSc Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership

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    MSc 15 months full-time/part-time

Course Description

The course advances your understanding of the opportunities and strategies for integrating hospital and community services, including local services, GP partnerships, local authorities, and other healthcare and voluntary sector bodies.

You are encouraged to adopt a critical lens when exploring the role of digital care records and single-assessment care plans, as well as the challenges of planning cost-effective funding and joined-up care, when aiming to improve health outcomes. There are also optional units on health informatics and public-health advocacy.

Why choose this course?

  • Get hands-on experience through field trips, visits and other work-related learning opportunities with our place-based partnerships in Bedfordshire
  • Teaching led by research-active experts in the field of health services research, partnership development and informatics
  • Develop your transferable skills in presentations, bid-writing, evaluation and conducting action-based research
  • The course offers the flexibility for you to study for shorter PGCert or PGDip qualifications or the longer Master’s
  • Opportunity to progress to doctorate studies in health services research supervised by outstanding researchers at our Institute for Health Research (IHR) and Institute of Applied Social Research (IASR).

Entry Requirements

UK applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.

EU/International applicants please visit website for details.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

There are numerous sources of funding available for postgraduate students, both from external sources such as the Government and from the University.

Student Destinations

Career opportunities include health services evaluation and research manager; health informatics/data analyst; health economist; health policy adviser; mental health liaison practitioner; health-related project business manager/coordinator; client-care manager; data quality and assurance leads; digital health/primary care transformation project leads; health/quality improvement/implementation officer; HR; workforce development lead.

Module Details

  • Collaborative Leadership In Integrated Health And Care Systems (ASS133-6) Compulsory
  • Research Dissertation In Integrated Healthcare Practice And Strategic Leadership (ASS137-6) Compulsory
  • Research Methods 1 : Setting Deep Foundations (ASS129-6) Compulsory
  • Research Methods 2 : Design, Data Collection And Ethics (ASS130-6) Compulsory
  • Strategic Management And Leadership Of Organisational Mental Health And Wellbeing (ASS135-6) Compulsory
  • The Principles And Application Of Health Economics (ASS134-6) Compulsory
  • Work-Based Dissertation In Integrated Healthcare And Strategic Leadership (ASS138-6) Compulsory
  • Health And Social Care Inequalities (PUB013-6) Optional
  • Health Informatics (ASS136-6) Optional

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