Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation), MSc / PGDip / PGCert

Swansea University

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Do you want to play a key role in the transformation of health and care systems? Do you want to challenge the status quo and use your innovative ideas to develop systems and services that benefit both the patient and organisation?

This course is designed to better equip middle and senior managers within health and social care systems in the UK and globally, to lead transformational change and drive innovation within healthcare systems, processes and technologies.

The increasing need for value-driven health and care systems, requires leaders that are capable of driving organisational and system-wide transformations. The future challenges call for a radical new approach, underpinned by prudent principles, to lead change, harness new technologies and contest the purpose, value and location of existing service provision for citizens.

This programme will enable you to realise innovation at a local level, with potential to lead through transformation at system level. Using the Bevan Commission’s thinking and Innovators, along with perspective from NHS Innovation Leads, industry and the wider sector, you will gain first-hand, invaluable insights into the application of the theories you will study.

Enhancing your management skills to correspond with the requirements in a modern health and care setting, is key in ensuring you are able to successfully guide organisations through innovative and transformational challenges.

WHY ADVANCED MANAGEMENT (HEALTH INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION)?

• Be the key driving force to transform health and care systems for the better.
• Access to world-class academics with extensive experience of working within the health, social care, third sector and life sciences sectors; as well as academia.
• Innovative teaching blends theory with practice through case analysis, participant observation, role play and master classes by subject experts.
• Confront contemporary issues in relation to the transformation and improvement of health and social care.
• Explore the inherent complexities in health and social care policy and practice for the purpose of innovation and transformation.
• Promote innovation and the challenges of uncertainty and disruption.
• Provide an opportunity for health and care professionals to undertake a critical evaluation of underlying theory, practice and research in health and social care.
• Become a critically reflective leader, practitioner, manager or researcher who can function at an advanced level of practice and provide leadership in the planning, development and critical evaluation of integrated health and social care.

This programme is delivered in a research and practice-led learning environment; where the most up-to-date knowledge is used to motivate and inspire learners; maximizing your learning outcomes. You will also be encouraged to become co-creators of research during the Research in a Health and Care Context module and the formative and summative assessments in other modules.

Your learning will be developed through original applications of different concepts and models to cases from your own work and life experience.

The programme will also draw on international, national, regional and local associations and networks. This breadth of research, teaching and professional expertise will serve to greatly enrich your development in the field of innovation and transformation within health and care.

The MSc Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation) is designed for professional learners in health and care settings. It will give students a range of new tools and techniques which will not only help them enhance the delivery of their teams and organisation but will also promote their further career development.