Course summary

Designed for existing and aspiring leaders, this dynamic and multidisciplinary course will help you progress your career and reshape healthcare services. On this programme you’ll learn from our team of experts in healthcare, business and psychology. But crucially, you’ll also learn from each other's experience - engaging in class debates and developing your professional network. Overview Designed specifically for existing and aspiring managers and leaders, our Healthcare Management and Leadership MSc supports students in developing the skills necessary to critically debate the challenges facing healthcare leaders, and the roles that clinicians, managers, and the wider healthcare economy can play in reshaping healthcare services. The programme offers learning opportunities delivered by experts from the Schools of Allied Health and Community, Worcester Business School and visiting guest speakers, bringing together key theories of leadership and management with specific relevance to health systems and social and community care provision. By providing a flexible, multidisciplinary approach within a supportive environment, our MSc enables professionals across the sector to learn with and from each other, develop professional networks, and advance their own practice in relation to effectively managing and leading people, processes, and practices within healthcare settings. There are full-time and part-time routes available to allow for study alongside work, with teaching hours generally concentrated into two-day blocks. When you graduate from this dual accredited course, you’ll have a MSc qualification from the University of Worcester plus a Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Career development This internationally recognised, dual accredited, course is a great way to continue your professional development and progress your career in the health, social or community care sector. Roles that benefit include:

• NHS management roles

• Private healthcare management

• NGO project leads

• Public Health manager

• Adult Social Care leader