About The Course

This Master’s 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
• Take options in health informatics; public health advocacy; or sustainable lifestyle redesigns for allied health professionals
• The course offers the flexibility for you to study for shorter PGCert or PGDip qualifications or the longer Master’s
• 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)
• This programme is dual accredited by CMI. Upon successfully passing all mapped modules students will be eligible for a CMI L7 qualification in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice (subject to CMI moderation)