Global Healthcare Management MSc drafted

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Year one

This module offers you the opportunity to critically evaluate theoretical principles of leadership which can then be applied to your current or future practice. The module covers leadership, personal effectiveness, management of people and teamworking alongside exploring the current literature on leadership. The module offers you the opportunity to develop your reflective skills, enabling you to reflect on your own qualities as an emergent leader and to consider how to develop yourself for their future practice. The overall aim of the module is to develop leaders with the confidence and skills, enabling you to become competent and reflective in your future leadership roles.

Compulsory

The module critically considers the relationship between the political process; the development of health policies; and the implementation of service changes locally resulting from national and international policy drivers. You will explore the key actors and organisations in the development and implementation of global, transnational, national and local health policies and consider the drivers for health policy. You will consider the ways in which healthcare leaders communicate and market polices, how equity, equality and efficiency are incorporated into policy design, and how the effectiveness of policies are measured.

Compulsory

This module develops your critical and conceptual understanding of global health issues associated with globalisation process and global change. While taking part in this module, you will develop skills for interpreting the drivers and different forms of globalisation to understand their impact on health systems ability to prevent the emergence and spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases. It prepares you to critically analyse the challenges facing not just governmental health agents, but national, regional and international partnerships coming together in order to build and manage strong health systems and healthy populations.

Compulsory

The Global Healthcare Management Portfolio has two functions; to showcase achievement across the course with evidence of study output, and to enable you to critically reflect on individual learning and development as you progress with your studies.

Alongside the presentation of material, you will maintain a journal or blog, enabling you to critically reflect on your study journey. Over the progress of the course, this will provide you with valuable information to link theory and practice, integrating learning and experience. Crucially, it provides a link between all of the taught modules, following key course themes and presenting a complete overview of Global Health Management.

For those of you who enrol on the Professional Experience

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Compulsory

This module will enable you to demonstrate a critical understanding of the complexity of health systems, stakeholders and the impact of culture, values on and within health and social care organisations and global health systems. It will consider management concepts, theories, models and tools, and your critical application to healthcare organisations in global contexts and seek to understand the challenges of leading and managing complex systems, stakeholders and services and a highly professionalised workforce. You will use this understanding to critically evaluate the impact on systems and organisations delivering services to patients and service users.

Compulsory

This module aims to support you to think analytically and build key study skills. This will enable you to cognitively engage with the complexities of evidence and consider critically how literature can be assessed, rigorously analysed and used in combination to enable understanding. This critical understanding will allow you to develop a set of high-level skills and the confidence to deploy them in both an academic and work context to make informed decisions across a gamut of global, local and professional settings.

Compulsory

This module aims to support the development of the advanced skills and knowledge of strategic planning to support decision making across healthcare systems and within healthcare organisations. You will critically examine qualitative and quantitative approaches to decision-making, the application of financial management to support the implementation of strategic plans including how to make the case for change in health systems. You will critically analyse how to ensure effective workforce planning in healthcare and how to transform and development the current healthcare workforce. You will also explore the leadership approaches to recruiting and retaining talent in healthcare systems.

Compulsory

This module aims to provide you with a framework of knowledge and understanding of how to effectively lead and develop people in organisations for better health and wellbeing using a range of approaches whatever the master’s degree of specialisation you elect to follow. You will explore for example, the influence and impact of leadership theories, culture and the impact of health and wellbeing on organisational performance in different types of organisational scenarios. You will appraise contemporary approaches for the creation of healthy work systems with emphasis placed upon modern-day methods and the role and skills of leaders in coaching and mentoring.

Ultimately, you will be given the opportunity to propose a series of recommendations to create and sustain a positive culture of health and wellbeing within an organisational context. Finally, the module requires you to reflect critically on your personal learning and development needs and how they work with others, from an ethical and professional standpoint to encourage your continuing professional development. The question key to this module is: What effective strategies can I utilise to promote an inclusive and healthy work culture to raise and sustain employee performance levels in a range of contemporary organisations?

Compulsory

The module is the culmination of the course and enables you to bring together your learning into one independent self-directed project. You will gain support through supervision with an allocated tutor, offering guidance on the focus of the healthcare management problem or issue and advice on all stages in the development and design of the proposed transformation business case. Peer-to-peer mentoring will be a key feature of the module. The project will take the form of a business case proposal, seeking to gain first stage approval for implementation from a virtual Health Executive Board. The proposal will demonstrate an analysis of an important health management problem or issue affecting service delivery, appraise the evidence for different options, undertake a quality impact assessment, proposing a realistic and viable service redesign initiative or innovation. The aim of the business case proposal will be to transform the delivery of an aspect of health care that benefits the welfare of service users and/or employees.

Compulsory