Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation), MSc / PGDip / PGCert

Transform Your Organisation: For Innovative Health and Care Leaders

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Course Overview

Do you want to play a key role in the transformation of health and care systems? Do you want to challenge the status quo and use your innovative ideas to develop systems and services that benefit both the patient and organisation?

This course is designed to better equip middle and senior managers within health and social care systems in the UK and globally, to lead transformational change and drive innovation within healthcare systems, processes and technologies.

The increasing need for value-driven health and care systems, requires leaders that are capable of driving organisational and system-wide transformations. The future challenges call for a radical new approach, underpinned by prudent principles, to lead change, harness new technologies and contest the purpose, value and location of existing service provision for citizens.

This programme will enable you to realise innovation at a local level, with potential to lead through transformation at system level. Using the Bevan Commission’s thinking and Innovators, along with perspective from NHS Innovation Leads, industry and the wider sector, you will gain first-hand, invaluable insights into the application of the theories you will study.

Enhancing your management skills to correspond with the requirements in a modern health and care setting, is key in ensuring you are able to successfully guide organisations through innovative and transformational challenges.

Limited scholarships available: See Scholarships section below, for further details

WHY ADVANCED MANAGEMENT (HEALTH INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION)?

  • The School of Management is accredited by AACSB International, the world’s largest business education association, connecting business schools, businesses and learners, to create the next generation of great leaders. 
  • Be the key driving force to transform health and care systems for the better.
  • Access to world-class academics with extensive experience of working within the health, social care, third sector and life sciences sectors; as well as academia.
  • Innovative teaching blends theory with practice through case analysis, participant observation, role play and master classes by subject experts.
  • Confront contemporary issues in relation to the transformation and improvement of health and social care.
  • Explore the inherent complexities in health and social care policy and practice for the purpose of innovation and transformation.
  • Promote innovation and the challenges of uncertainty and disruption.
  • Provide an opportunity for health and care professionals to undertake a critical evaluation of underlying theory, practice and research in health and social care.
  • Become a critically reflective leader, practitioner, manager or researcher who can function at an advanced level of practice and provide leadership in the planning, development and critical evaluation of integrated health and social care.

YOUR INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION COURSE EXPERIENCE

This programme is delivered in a research and practice-led learning environment; where the most up-to-date knowledge is used to motivate and inspire learners; maximizing your learning outcomes. You will also be encouraged to become co-creators of research during the Research in a Health and Care Context module and the formative and summative assessments in other modules.

Your learning will be developed through original applications of different concepts and models to cases from your own work and life experience.

The programme will also draw on international, national, regional and local associations and networks. This breadth of research, teaching and professional expertise will serve to greatly enrich your development in the field of innovation and transformation within health and care.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

This course is designed to better equip middle and senior managers within health systems (UK and globally), social care, life sciences and third sectors to be the driving force behind innovation and transformation within their organisations.

There is a range of possible career options available, including:

  • Managing Director
  • Head of Innovation
  • Operations Director
  • Change Manager
  • Head of Value-Based Health and Care
  • Chief Innovation Officer
  • Innovation Lead
  • Operational Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Finance Manager
  • Quality and Assurance Manager
  • Team Manager
  • Service Manager
  • Technical Manager
  • Procurement Manager

Modules

You will study a range of modules, before undertaking an independent project/dissertation in your final semester.

The programme is based on the interaction between theory and practice and will provide you with a critical appreciation of transformational challenges in a health and care context.

Modules typically include: Exploring Organisational Purpose, Navigating Innovation & Change, Prudent Health and Care Innovation, Complex Health & Care, People & Systems and Research in a Health & Care Context.

Disclaimer: Module selection options may change