Health Care Management

Advertisement

The programme aims to provide a high quality, vocational education, which is intellectually rigorous and up-to-date as well as relevant to the needs of existing and future managers, executives and clinicians in the health care sector.

The programme has a business management orientation and draws on a broad base of management theory and examples to explain and analyse the sector. It is designed to provide participants with concepts, models, techniques and examples, which will enable them to improve the provision of care to patients.

It based on a specially designed modules to give students a thorough grounding in the basic management disciplines, followed by specialist modules in particular aspects of health care management.

Compulsory Modules
* Operational Management in Health Care
* Financial Management
* Health Care Quality Management
* Health Care Systems, Structures and Functions
* Organisational Behaviour
* Professionals in Health Care
* Health Economics
* Research Methods
* 20,000-word dissertation

Applicants should usually hold a bachelors degree (UK Lower Second/2.2 or above) or equivalent qualification from a recognised British/overseas university. Every applicant is assessed individually on their own merit. Higher level professional qualifications may also be accepted. Relevant work experience could be an additional benefit where applicants have not reached the standard entry requirements, although it is not an admissions requirement for this particular degree programme.Candidates for whom English is not their first language will normally be required to have taken an English language test and achieved a score of either TOEFL 550 or above, IELTS 6.0 or above, or Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English Grade C or above. This test must have been taken within two years prior to the start of the programme you are applying for.The School also assists students whose first language is not English through close cooperation with the University£s Language Centre. English Language Requirements CAE score: (read more) Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) is part of the Cambridge English suite and is targeted at a high level (IETLS 6.5-8.0). It is an international English language exam set at the right level for academic and professional success. Developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment - part of the University of Cambridge - it helps you stand out from the crowd as a high achiever. 60 (Grade C)