Program Overview

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Healthcare Management and Leadership MSc

Overview

Designed specifically for existing and aspiring managers and leaders, our Healthcare Management and Leadership MSc supports students in developing the skills necessary to critically debate the challenges facing healthcare leaders, and the roles that clinicians, managers, and the wider healthcare economy can play in reshaping healthcare services.

The programme offers learning opportunities delivered by experts from the Schools of Allied Health and Community, Worcester Business School and visiting guest speakers, bringing together key theories of leadership and management with specific relevance to health systems and social and community care provision.

By providing a flexible, multidisciplinary approach within a supportive environment, our MSc enables professionals across the sector to learn with and from each other, develop professional networks, and advance their own practice in relation to effectively managing and leading people, processes, and practices within healthcare settings.

There are full-time and part-time routes available to allow for study alongside work, with teaching hours generally concentrated into two-day blocks.

When you graduate from this dual accredited course, you’ll have a MSc qualification from the University of Worcester plus a Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Course Content

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the sector, therefore modules do occasionally change to keep the course up to date. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you of this as soon as possible.

Year 1

• Mandatory modules
  • Research for Health and Social Care Management
  • Developing Reflective Leadership and Management Practice
  • Leading and Managing Quality Improvement
  • Leading and Managing People: Frontline Approaches
  • Fundamentals of Finance for Sustainable Business
  • Digital Transformation and Data-Driven Decision Making
  • The Global Context of Health: Negotiated Learning
  • Dissertation

Career Development

This internationally recognised, dual accredited, course is a great way to continue your professional development and progress your career in the health, social or community care sector. Roles that benefit include:

• NHS management roles
• Private healthcare management
• NGO project leads
• Public Health manager
• Adult Social Care leader

Healthcare organisations around the world are actively seeking progressive, knowledgeable and highly skilled leaders and managers - with this Masters degree you can demonstrate you’re the right candidate for the job.

Course Highlights

• Course community: You’ll join a welcoming and supportive group of students from the UK and around the world. Class debates, study workshops and support sessions will give you plenty of chance to learn from each other's varied experiences.

Teaching and Assessment

Students are taught through a combination of interactive workshops, lectures, practical activities, seminars, online activities, enquiry-based learning, self-directed and independent learning.

Teaching and Assessment Contents

• Teaching
• Assessment
• Location of study
• Contact time
• Independent study
• Teaching staff
• Specification

You are taught through a combination of interactive workshops, lectures, practical activities, seminars, blended learning, online activities, enquiry-based learning, self-directed and independent learning.

Interactive workshops take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion and small group activities. Seminars enable the discussion and development of understanding of topics covered in lectures and are focused on developing subject specific skills and applied individual and group project work. Tutorials are a key aspect of the learning strategy with student being encouraged to share their assessment plans with tutors and peers, allowing structured questions and feedback. Tutorials can be face-to-face or utilise digital technologies.

In addition, post graduate students will have a minimum of two meetings with their Personal Academic Tutor times to coincide with key points such as induction or assessment. When undertaking the dissertation module, a supervisor will also be allocated for additional support.

The University places emphasis on enabling you to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip them for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. A mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support from Student Services and Library Services, and also the Personal Academic Tutoring system enables you to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will help them to flourish and be successful.

Entry Requirements

An honours degree at 2:2 level or above in a health-related or business-related subject (if a business subject you'll need to be working in healthcare).

Or

Qualifications and experience considered by the Programme Leader and/or admissions tutor to be equivalent (all students applying via this route will be assessed and interviewed by the Programme Lead).

Fees

UK and EU Students

The standard fee for full-time home and EU students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA and MRes degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £9,450 per year.

International Students

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on MA, MSc, MBA and MRes degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £17,900 per year.

Key Facts

• CMI accredited course
• Start date and location: Sep 2025 - Worcester
• Fees: UK and EU £9,450, International £17,900
• 1 year full-time (part-time option available)