About the course

This Master’s is designed for students with a background (clinical or non-clinical) in health and social care, and/or relevant experience, who aspire to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision, in the UK and abroad.

The 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 sector bodies.

You are encouraged to adopt a critical lens when exploring the role of digital care records and single-assessment care plans, as well as the challenges of planning cost-effective funding and joined-up care, when aiming to improve health outcomes. There are also optional units on health informatics and public-health advocacy.

Why choose this course?

Get hands-on experience through field trips, visits and other work-related learning opportunities with our place-based partnerships in Bedfordshire
Teaching led by research-active experts in the field of health services research, partnership development and informatics
Develop your transferable skills in presentations, bid-writing, evaluation and conducting action-based research
The course offers the flexibility for you to study for shorter PGCert or PGDip qualifications or the longer Master’s
Opportunity to progress to doctorate studies in health services research supervised by outstanding researchers at our Institute for Health Research (IHR) and Institute of Applied Social Research (IASR)

Hear from Course Co-ordinator Nenadi Adamu and Senior Lecturer Faith Ikioda about who this degree is aimed at, and what kind of topics you will study on the Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership MSc.

How will this course improve my career prospects?

Career 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.