Teaching

Module Code: MN7415

This module will explore how medics are managed in the NHS compared to other clinical staff, such as nurses and midwives. It will also look at how medical clinicians are managed in comparison with other professionals, such as accountants, teachers and lawyers; plus contrast the management of counterpart clinicians in other countries.

You will explore and debate the full range of aspects that make up the experience of employment as a medical clinician in the NHS: professional regulation (e.g. GMC); government policy (e.g. ‘7-day NHS’) statutory regulation (e.g. junior doctors’ contract), employment relations (e.g. trade unions) and inequalities (e.g. gender and race).

Topics covered

• Who manages medical clinicians’ and why?
• What is the medical labour process and how does it differ to that for non-medical professionals?
• Professional and statutory regulation in the clinical workplace?
• Employment relations and inequalities in the medical workplace
• How does the management of NHS medics compare to international counterparts?

Module Code: MN7417

In this module you will study issues of professional and managerial practice in healthcare, with a particular focus on quality and safety. We will look at effective management, leadership and partnership working across professional and organisational groups, drawing on the academic literature on these activities but also using practical learning to help you put these principles into practice. You will gain a scientific understanding of the organisational challenges that can plague complex healthcare systems, and practical guidance on how to co-ordinate and lead improvement efforts in your own organisation.

Topics covered

• Theories of leadership, change management, governance and organisation, with particular reference to healthcare
• Characteristics of healthcare organisation; implications of these for leadership, management and team work
• Key strategies for leadership and change management: negotiating, managing conflict, coaching, approaches to service transformation and addressing behaviours that undermine safety culture
• Impact of national policy on quality and safety in healthcare; implications of this for management, leadership and clinical practice
• Strategies for leading and engaging others in improving quality and safety in healthcare
• Real world case studies of leading and managing change/improvement
• Key challenges and dilemmas of leading and managing in the current healthcare context (including the structural context)

Module Code: MN7419

You’re concluding your postgraduate study, and your dissertation is the chance to put all your learning into practice. In this, you’ll undertake a substantive piece of research on a management issue of your choice, resulting in a clear and well-organised dissertation with new insight into your topic.

You’ll identify and analyse a major management issue associated with a particular organisational topic, supported by a case study. You will then create a plan to manage or resolve it, supported by the use of data. All of this will allow you to create an accurate and incisive dissertation using appropriate methods of research, analysis and presentation, after which you will review and reflect on the research process, displaying awareness both of the limitations of the project and any attendant ethical issues.

You’ll gain important transferable skills in written communication, information handling, qualitative analysis, problem-solving, numeracy and time management; invaluable in your future career.

Module Code: MN7438

This module will equip you to navigate the economics and financing of healthcare by considering how healthcare resources are allocated and how decisions are made about the costs and benefits of healthcare. By taking this module, you’ll be able to explain the key concepts of economic theory and their application to healthcare.

You will consider different models that can be applied to the evaluation of healthcare intervention and you will critically appraise different approaches that can be taken to the allocation of healthcare resources. You will develop an understanding of economic evaluations and priority setting techniques, and learn about different methods used to measure and value the costs and benefits of healthcare. You will understand how this knowledge can be applied to decision making and planning process in healthcare management.

Topics covered

• Understanding costs in healthcare organisations
• Pricing decisions in healthcare
• Budgeting techniques in healthcare
• Microeconomic tools for health economics
• Statistical tools for health economics
• technology in healthcare provision
• Cost-benefit analysis for healthcare managers
• Health insurance market and asymmetric information
• Healthcare labour market
• Comparative healthcare systems

Module Code: MN7439

This module explores the relationship between health care provision, health systems and policy. Taking national and global perspectives, you will critically evaluate the key components of health systems and their contribution to equitable, efficient, responsive and sustainable health care. This will include evaluation of challenges associated with health systems improvement and health policy implementation. The relationships between global health governance and national policy making will be debated and the question of whether a ‘perfect’ health system can be achieved.

Topics covered

• Key concepts of health systems and policy
• Components of health systems
• Health systems improvement and implementing policy
• Impact of health systems on the development of health policy
• Health governance
• Role of the healthcare manager/leader and government oversight in health systems and policy
• Comparative health systems
• Population health and health systems
• Global health governance and health policy
• Health systems of low, middle and high income countries

Module Code: MN7440

This module will equip you to understand the role of digital innovation in the organisation and delivery of healthcare. You will be able to articulate the challenges of adoption and implementation of digital innovations in relation to healthcare systems and organisational contexts and understand the potential for digital disparities and related health inequalities from the introduction of digital innovation in healthcare. You will examine the importance of user (public, patient, professional) involvement and understand the processes related to the development, testing and deployment of digital innovation in healthcare. You will develop the ability to critically analyse digital solutions for healthcare problems in a variety of national, sectoral and organisational contexts.

Topics covered

• Artificial Intelligence in health and care services
• Aging and Technology
• Self—management
• Telehealth and telecare
• Co-production and co-design
• Digitalisation of health and care work

Module Code: MN7441

This module aims to equip you with the academic study tools and techniques necessary to complete your programme of studies. In doing so, this module aims to help you to develop the organisational, critical reading, studying, writing skills, and critical thinking, which will underpin the rest of your modules and which, as transferable skills, will enhance how you develop in your role in healthcare management.

Throughout the module, you’ll look at practical study skills such as time management, effective note-taking and reading for research. This will help you to reflect upon the processes and practises associated with effective teamwork, especially building sustainable team relations based on managing team diversity, and ensuring inclusions in practice and outcomes.

Exploring these skills will enable you to appreciate the variety of educational cultures among co-students, especially in different national cultures. You’ll become adept at navigating and adapting to studying in the School of Business specifically, and the UK higher education sector generally.

You will also explore how to apply your critical thinking to the context of healthcare management. You will learn how to rapidly assess different kinds of information and evidence, summarise information and develop a case for change. You will practise these skills in a range of exercises designed to simulate the challenges found in a variety of healthcare management settings.