Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership (Taught)

If you aspire to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision, in the UK and abroad, this 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 bodies. You are encouraged to adopt a critical lens when exploring real-life issues alongside the challenges of planning cost-effective funding and joined-up care, with the aim of improving health outcomes.

Course accreditation
The course is accredited by the UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI), offering successful graduates eligibility for a CMI L7 qualification in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.

Career-powered links
We collaborate with Healthwatch Luton as well as the local health and wellbeing boards for Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes, offering students opportunities for work-based learning; interaction with health leaders; and experience of real-world settings and contemporary issues.

Your student experience

The course is offered at three levels: PgCert (60 credits), PgDip (120 credits) and Master’s (180 credits) - it’s your choice how far you take your studies.

Learn from an industry-experienced academic team, many of whom maintain relevant registrations via practice or CPD, or are research active across multiple areas.

Local leaders from care boards and other relevant organisations contribute to course delivery, giving you practical experience of working in the system.

Work with Healthwatch Luton to research, explore and design health services for different groups.

Experience field visits to health and wellbeing boards to observe proceedings and gain experience of a range of real-world settings and contemporary issues.

Course modules

Collaborative leadership in integrated health and care systems – Gain the leadership capabilities to strengthen partnership and collaborative working arrangements across all sectors.

Principles and application of health economics – How economics can support leadership decisions when allocating resources in health and social care settings.

Strategic management and leadership of organisational mental health and wellbeing – Understand the impact of mental health and wellbeing on organisational performance and make recommendations to create a positive culture.

Research methods 1: setting deep foundations – Learn to combine existing policy and data with research evidence, developing your critical appreciation of your chosen field of interest.

Research methods 2: design, data collection and ethics – Use your knowledge of research methods to design a robust, appropriate research proposal.

Dissertation This course offers two approaches to your dissertation.

1. - Join a relevant organisation (for at least 100 hours) to deliver a work-based project that will create change for integrated healthcare services.

2. - Complete a postgraduate dissertation researching a question of organisational, theoretical or practice importance that is relevant to the course and your own area of interest.

You also choose from three optional modules:

• Health informatics

• Implementing sustainable lifestyle redesigns in allied health professionals care

• Health and social care inequalities.

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