Leadership in Healthcare MSc
Guildford, United Kingdom
DURATION
5 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Jul 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
Why Choose This Course
- Study a curriculum designed to enhance your existing skills, knowledge, and understanding of leadership and management in healthcare organizations to help you tackle the needs of modern healthcare
- Examine decision-making, service redesign, implementation of change, patient safety, and risk management throughout a variety of healthcare settings
- Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers and professional experts from a range of practice fields
- Gain a holistic and broad view of the sector by learning alongside other healthcare professionals and healthcare leaders who'll share their knowledge and ideas with you
- Become a visionary leader who can inspire others and provide high-quality, innovative healthcare around the world.
What You Will Study
While examining both contemporary policy, practice, and leadership theory, we’ll help you understand how all these apply to healthcare-relevant situations. We’ll help you create a reflective portfolio so you can critically evaluate your practice.
You’ll study topics, including change management, decision-making, patient safety and risk management, and service redesign.
You’ll also complete a research dissertation on an area of personal interest, which we’ll match with the expertise of our academic staff, ensuring you get the best support.
Teaching
Your teaching will be delivered through a combination of:
- Group work (e.g. discussion groups)
- Lectures
- Online learning
- Roleplays
- Seminars
- Tutorials.
Outside of these, you’ll be expected to carry out independent study, including coursework, essays, and reading.
There may be occasions when the delivery of your teaching is supported by graduate teaching assistants. The University has a set of procedures that govern the use of postgraduate research students in this way.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Discover how we can support your undergraduate and postgraduate studies with a host of bursaries and scholarships directly from the University of Surrey and external providers.
Curriculum
Academic Year Structure
This part-time course will enable you to flexibly complete modules, fitting these around your existing commitments.
Course Length
This course can take between 2-5 years to complete. This is dependent on how many modules you select to study at a given time.
Modules
Modules listed are indicative, reflecting the information available at the time of publication. Please note that modules may be subject to teaching availability, student demand, and/or class size caps.
The University operates a credit framework for all taught programs based on a 15-credit tariff. Modules can be either 15, 30, 45, 75, or 120 credits, and additionally for some masters dissertations, 90 credits.
The structure of our programs follows clear educational aims that are tailored to each program. These are all outlined in the program specifications which include further details such as the learning outcomes:
Unstructured Part-time
- Transforming Services for Quality
- Evidencing Your Practice (Leadership)
- Implementing Change in Practice
- Strategic Leadership for Healthcare
- Application of Decision-Making
- Fundamentals in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
- Research Design and Methodology
- Dissertation
Timetable
Course timetables are normally available one month before the start of the semester.
New students will receive their personalized timetable in Welcome Week, and in subsequent semesters, two weeks before the start of the semester.
Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week (Monday – Friday). Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities. Part-time classes are normally scheduled on one or two days per week, details of which can be obtained from the Academic Hive.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
We offer career information, advice, and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.
100 percent of our postgraduate health sciences graduates go on to employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2023, HESA). You’ll graduate with a leadership qualification which is highly sought within the healthcare sector across the world. You’ll typically go on to work for the NHS, private healthcare organizations , or academic institutions.