MSc in Quality and Safety in Healthcare Management

To be eligible for the programme you must:

• Hold a bachelor degree. If you don’t hold a bachelor degree, please see the recognition of prior learning pathway outlined below.
• Be working in the healthcare industry.
• Meet the English language requirements (unless exempt): IELTS score of 6.5, Duolingo 105-110, or equivalent score on another standardised test. Please see below for list of exemptions. 

To be eligible for the programme you must:

• Hold a bachelor degree. If you don’t hold a bachelor degree, please see the recognition of prior learning pathway outlined below.
• Be working in the healthcare industry.
• Meet the English language requirements (unless exempt): IELTS score of 6.5, Duolingo 105-110, or equivalent score on another standardised test. Please see below for list of exemptions. 

This programme will provide you with the skills and knowledge to:

• Develop as a reflective critical practitioner with the knowledge, insight and skills to determine the threats to quality and safety, and the contributory factors therein, and to identify appropriate evidence based solutions for different levels of the healthcare system.
• Develop knowledge of quality, safety, leadership and management competencies to enable you to lead teams to improve and assure healthcare standards.
• Develop skills in quality and safety planning, implementing, monitoring and measurement, including the management of accreditation processes, to proactively assure the quality and safety of care.
• Develop a critical understanding of safety culture, driven by learning and accountability, and how such a culture can be fostered and maintained; as part of a collective approach to governance alongside patients and public, ensuring that quality and safety improvement is underpinned by current policy and best practice.
• Demonstrate the ability to speak up and to question processes, policies and procedures as part of safety and improvement work.
• Develop confidence and skills in evaluating and applying quality and safety research and tools to the management of healthcare.
• Develop a strategic mindset and awareness of the relationship between human factors, staff wellbeing and patient safety in the design, implementation and monitoring of quality and safety initiatives in the health services.
• Recognise the importance of organisational resilience, critical reflection and facilitated discussion in individual and organisational learning from positive and negative events in healthcare.