Transforming and Leading in Health Care MSc - Module / MSc / PgCert / PgDip

Program Overview

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Transforming and Leading in Health Care MSc

Overview

This Masters (MSc) Transforming and Leading Health Care is designed as a multidisciplinary programme for professionals and managers leading across both health and can be accessed as a purely on line course or as blended delivery.

What's covered in this course?

As health care provision becomes increasingly complex, with greater demand for services and more people with multiple long term conditions plus the shortages of skilled professionals, there is a growing importance on how health care components (workforce/politics/economics/ accreditation) need to improve and transform. Most health systems globally are under sustained financial constraint and rising consumer expectation.

The need to redesign systems is becoming increasingly important. A crucial part of this for health care leaders includes how to manage yourself, and others, and how to use these skills as the basis for continually managing challenges and improvements in health care systems. Leading and managing health services can seem increasingly challenging in a rapidly changing and multicomplex environment, which attracts continual media interest and attention. It is underpinned by a plethora of legislation, guidance and governance which can often leave professionals both bewildered and overwhelmed as inspections and demands of services and organisations continues to increase.

The overall aim of this programme is for you to continue to develop yourself and your leadership and management skills, by understanding and reflect on how people and team’s behaviours and this affects organisations development and ability to improve. The program then explores global health lessons and the relevance to your everyday practice. The programme will develop your research and leadership skills to enhance your critical thinking in both areas.

Why Choose Us?

• Highly experienced lecturers that presently work across many different industries/sectors
• A unique range of topics that can be applied to your work environment
• A flexible approach to how the student combines modules
• A good preparation for many roles in the healthcare sector
• Attending this programme gives you access to a specialised network of professionals

Entry Requirements

Essential requirements

All applicants must be working in an appropriate environment in order to fully engage with the chosen modules.

Applicants will also need one of the following:

• A relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or a 60 credit level 6 award in an appropriate subject area.
• A minimum of five years’ experience in a relevant healthcare area and evidence of successfully completed level 6 study within the preceding 2 years.
• A minimum of five years’ experience in a relevant healthcare area accompanied by the submission of a 2,000-3,000 discursive essay. This will be marked at level 6 and will need to meet the pass mark of 40% in order for an offer to be made. The essay title and further information will be sent to eligible students on application.

Applying with international qualifications

See below for further information on applying as an international student.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each band, or equivalent. See details of accepted qualifications.

Fees & How to Apply

UK students

Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament. View fees for continuing students.

Award: Module

Starting: Sep 2025

• Mode: Part Time
• Duration: 20 weeks (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: Module

Starting: Jan 2026

• Mode: Part Time
• Duration: 20 weeks (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: Module

Starting: Apr 2026

• Mode: Part Time
• Duration: 20 weeks (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: MSc

Starting: Sep 2025

• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 18 months (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: MSc

Starting: Jan 2026

• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 18 months (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: PgCert

Starting: Sep 2025

• Mode: Part Time
• Duration: 1 year (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: PgCert

Starting: Jan 2026

• Mode: Part Time
• Duration: 1 year (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: PgDip

Starting: Sep 2025

• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 1 year (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

Award: PgDip

Starting: Jan 2026

• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 1 year (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £860 per 20 credit module

International students

Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament. View fees for continuing students.

Award: MSc

Starting: Sep 2025

• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 18 months (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £18,600 in 2025/26

Award: MSc

Starting: Jan 2026

• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 18 months (Blended Learning)
• Fees: £18,600 in 2025/26

Course in Depth

Level 7

In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 180 credits):

• Global Policy in Health Care 20 credits
• Innovation, Creativity and Improvement in Health Care 20 credits
• Understanding Personality, Potential and Performance for Individuals, Teams and Organisations 20 credits
• Leadership Skills and Project Management for Health and Healthcare 20 credits
• Research: Methods of enquiry 20 credits
• Profiling Experiential Learning 20 credits
• Dissertation Module 60 credits

Employability

This programme equips you with enhanced knowledge in; interpersonal and managerial skills and health care improvement and policy, which contributes positively to employability within areas of health care.

Promotes enterprising, professional, work-ready and creative problem solvers, willing to respond to change and manage it effectively within health care.

Facilities & Staff

Our Facilities

Our Nursing and Midwifery courses are based at our City South campus in leafy Edgbaston.

We’ve spent £41million expanding our facilities at City South. These facilities offer hands-on practical experience, replicating the spaces you will come across in professional practice.

In a sector where new techniques are constantly being discovered, we work hard to ensure that you learn using the most up-to-date equipment available. Alongside physical spaces such as a mock operating theatre and wards, we also make use of online and virtual technology, such as our virtual ward and virtual case creator.

Centre for Skills and Simulation

The Centre for Skills and Simulation offers a range of different spaces which replicate situations that you will encounter in practice. These include hospital wards, an operating theatre and a home environment room.

Our mock wards enable you to get a feel of what a ward is really like before you head out for your first placement. The hospital wards can be adapted from low care to high dependency care environment with the necessary monitoring equipment.

The home environment room is the perfect space for teaching communications skills and allows us to simulate a community setting for our students. It is particularly useful for mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and midwives.

Simulation Manikins

We have several Simulation men (SIM men) and simulation babies (SIM babies) which are anatomically correct manikins used for teaching specific techniques such as advanced adult and paediatric life support skills, acute and high dependency clinical skills, first aid and communication skills. The manikins contain software which replicates real symptoms, and can manipulate indicators such as blood pressure, pulse and heart rate for extra realism. SIM man can even ‘talk’ to the students as they are treating him, to add another dimension to learning.

Computer Facilities

The Seacole building has two open-access IT Suites which offer PCs, printers, photocopiers and scanners. There is also an IT Helpdesk for quick and easy help with your computing or internet issues.

Our PCs utilise the latest Intel i5 core technology, all with:

• Fast (unrestricted) internet connectivity
• Ability to save files to USB, DVD & CD
• Microsoft Office software
• Research and statistical software
• Storage space which can be accessed from any PC across the University and from home

Our PCs are also designed to support students who may have difficulties with reading and writing, featuring specialised software with zooming/magnification and screen reading capabilities, which may also be customised for individual student needs.

In addition to desktop PCs, we also offer a laptop loan facility, allowing students to borrow a laptop for up to six hours while on campus.

Our staff

Helen Cope

Course Leader for MSc Transforming and Leading in Healthcare

Helen has spent 25 years as a consultant running her own business, helping healthcare and private sector organisations nationally and internationally improve their practice and innovate. She has an HR and Organisational Development background and is a keen advocate of change. Focused on effective, engaging and innovative teaching, Helen...