Healthcare Leadership and Commissioning PGCert

Postgraduate

In Brighton

£ 2,613 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This innovative course offers clinicians and managers the opportunity to look in depth at healthcare leadership and commissioning theory, policy and practice, combining academic research with an up-to-the minute take on current policy, structured practical projects and work-based investigations.

A distinct feature of this course is that students can combine leadership modules with specialist clinical, public health, educational, and research modules; this combination strengthens professional knowledge, and applies learning to practice. The course will challenge existing work habits and mindsets, and underpin your work performance with a strong theory and policy base.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

This course is delivered by a multi-professional team based both within the university and in health and social care services, bringing clinicians, leaders and commissioners together from all parts of the health and care system.

It offers a rich and inter-connected learning environment to build cross-organisation links with leaders from other settings. The classroom environment is enriched with practical applied examples of workplace initiatives.

The course is open to professionals with experience of, or interest in, leadership and commissioning. Applicants will either have a first degree or will be able to show a proven track record in leadership or commissioning.

International applicants who meet the above entry criteria and have IELTS (minimum score of 7.0, with no less than 6.5 in each section) are welcome to apply.

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Subjects

  • Leadership
  • Healthcare
  • Management
  • Development
  • Professional
  • Research
  • Quantitative
  • Dissertation
  • Project
  • Framework

Course programme

Policies and Structures

Current legislative and policy changes in public services; examination of the changing health and social care system, organisational, social, cultural and political context

Health & Care Service Strategy and Financial Challenges
  • Overview of strategic planning, market development
  • Review of financial context, and its social and economic impact
Quality & Care
  • Policy and theory for achieving quality
  • Principles, objectives and effectiveness of effective governance
  • Safety and safeguarding issues for leaders in health & care settings
Leadership Theory & its relationship to public services management
  • Understanding leadership theories and their evaluation in relation to health and social care services
  • Leadership, Followership, and Partnership
  • Leading services in partnership with the public, communities and patients
  • Decision making and influencing processes
  • Competences, frameworks, and development models for leaders
Change Theory
  • Changing health systems and services
  • Organisational development
  • Organisational design & Organisational behaviour
  • Whole systems and complexity
  • Service modernisation processes and tools


Additional information

International £4,860

Healthcare Leadership and Commissioning PGCert

£ 2,613 VAT inc.