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Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership PgCert

University of Bedfordshire

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Course options

  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Certificate

  • Location

    Luton

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    14-SEP-26

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

If you aspire to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision, in the UK and abroad, this 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 bodies. You are encouraged to adopt a critical lens when exploring real-life issues alongside the challenges of planning cost-effective funding and joined-up care, with the aim of improving health outcomes. What will you study? Studying our Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership PgCert course will equip you with the in-depth knowledge and skills to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision through integrating a range of health and social care services. To develop your practice, you will be equipped with the critical leadership knowledge and capabilities used to strengthen partnership and collaborative working across various sectors in our Collaborative Leadership in Integrated Health and Care Systems unit to understand how this instils compassion and high-quality performance and collaborative work practices at every level of health and care. Similarly, our unit in Strategic Management and Leadership of Organisational Mental Health and Wellbeing will allow you to understand the impact of mental health and wellbeing on organisational performance as well as the complexities of managing wellbeing in an organisation. Furthermore, you will be exposed to the contemporary approaches in creating healthy work systems and a positive culture of mental health and wellbeing.This course also offers a range of optional units for you to explore, such as our unit in Health Informatics that will allow you to gain a critical awareness of the ethical and practical complexity of managing health data across integrated care. If you are passionate about sustainability, you will be able to integrate this practice with leadership qualities in our Implementing Sustainable Lifestyle Redesigns in Allied Health Professionals Care unit. Here, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to work within NHS environments, social and community care, social enterprises or charities to implement a sustainable lifestyle redesign. You may also choose to develop your understanding of Health and Social Care Inequalities while analysing research to reduce inequalities in health and social care. How will you be assessed?The assessment strategy is one that draws on applied principles in addressing challenges faced in the context of integrated healthcare pathways. Consequently a wide range of assessment that are informed by the wealth of practice information the workforce will face are incorporated into the assessment on this course including but not limited to work-based learning portfolios e-learning modules essays and posters.CareersCareer opportunities include health services evaluation and research manager health informatics/data analyst health economist health policy adviser mental health liaison practitioner health-related project business manager/coordinator client-care manager data quality and assurance leads digital health/primary care transformation project leads health/quality improvement/implementation officer HR workforce development lead. Progressing on to the Master’s opens up the opportunity for further postgraduate and research studies. Course accreditation The course is dual-accredited by the UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI), offering successful graduates eligibility for a CMI L7 qualification in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice. Duration: 9 months Full-time 18 months Part time

Tuition fees

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£ 16,900per year

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University information

University of Bedfordshire

University of Bedfordshire

  • University League Table

    130th

  • Campus address

    Luton, University Square, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Health Studies

    34th out of 35 4

    119th out of 123 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 154
    91 59%

    27th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    36.0 36%

    29th

    10

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.22 80%

    18th

    5

  • Entry standards

    / Max 217
    95 44%

    112th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    50.0 50%

    116th

    13

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.06 77%

    71st

    23

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