Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership (with CMI recognition) MSc

This Masters is designed for students with a background (clinical or non-clinical) in health and social care and/or relevant experience who aspire to support lead and manage transformative healthcare provision in the UK and abroad.

The course advances your understanding of the opportunities and strategies for integrating hospital and community services including local services GP partnerships local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector bodies.

You are encouraged to adopt a critical lens when exploring the role of digital care records and single-assessment care plans as well as the challenges of planning cost-effective funding and joined-up care when aiming to improve health outcomes. There are also optional units on health informatics and public-health advocacy.

Why choose this course?

• Get hands-on experience through field trips visits and other work-related learning opportunities with our place-based partnerships in Bedfordshire
• Teaching led by research-active experts in the field of health services research partnership development and informatics
• Develop your transferable skills in presentations bid-writing evaluation and conducting action-based research
• On completion of the course gain recognition with awards from the Chartered Management Institute in Level 7 Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
• The course offers the flexibility for you to study for shorter PGCert or PGDip qualifications or the longer Masters
• Opportunity to progress to doctorate studies in health services research supervised by outstanding researchers at our Institute for Health Research (IHR) and Institute of Applied Social Research (IASR)

When you submit an application form you must remember to include photocopies of the following supporting documents. We do not need to see your original qualifications and certificates.

• A completed application form signed by you (an electronic signature is fine)
• Copies of your official academic qualifications and certificates including proof of your level of English Language (where relevant)
• A one-page personal statement. This should tell us why you want to study your chosen course.
• A copy of your current valid passport details
• Please submit copies of any UK Visa that you have held and any documentation relating to previous visa refusals from any country