Program Overview

Risk Management in Healthcare (GBSH0014)

Key Information

• Faculty: Faculty of Population Health Sciences
• Teaching department: Global Business School for Health
• Credit value: 15
• Restrictions: This module is only available for UCL Global Business School for Health students.

Alternative Credit Options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

The ability to effectively manage risks is critical to safeguarding an organisation, but it is even more complex in the healthcare domain. In this module, you will develop an in-depth understanding of risk management in a healthcare setting. You will assess strategies for risk management as well as frameworks for delivering risk management plans for healthcare. You will come to understand that in healthcare, risks include patient safety and medical errors, but also other risks such as operational, environmental, and financial risks.

As healthcare innovations continue at a rapid pace, you will learn how healthcare organisations assess risks that come with technological change, cybersecurity, regulatory, and legal risk. You will explore that risk can be an opportunity. Without understanding the risks, risk levels, and processes for mitigation, organisations cannot appropriately appraise opportunities and changes in rapidly evolving health systems. You will learn through interaction with a variety of risk management experts supporting the health sector to ensure a high standard of continuous risk management.

The module offers a clear understanding of the significance of health insurance, focusing on the relationship between risk and insurance, such as Pooling of losses, Payment of fortuitous losses, Risk transfer, and indemnification, which will lead to healthcare contracting and its implications on risk-sharing for capacity building.

Module Deliveries for 2026/27 Academic Year

• Intended teaching term: Term 1
• Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and Assessment

• Mode of study: In person
• Intended teaching location: UCL East
• Methods of assessment:
  • 60% Coursework
  • 40% Exam
• Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other Information

• Number of students on module in previous year: 145
• Module leader: Dr Rama Prasad Kanungo

Last Updated

This module description was last updated on 10th March 2026.