HPDM214Z: Resourcing in Healthcare
This module explores productivity in healthcare, focusing on finance, activity and people. You will develop key skills in financial aspects: accounting, budgeting, information systems, health economics principles, supply and demand, and their integration into healthcare policy. This builds understanding of decision-making and service improvements which maximise impact on health outcomes.
Additionally, you will study behavioural influences on productivity, including staff morale, social capital and leadership models. Resource allocation and financial decision-making studies are underpinned by medical ethics considerations, applying individual patient and population perspectives. Sustainable finance practices to support Sustainable Development Goals are examined, including sustainability ratings and environmental, social and governance risks.
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HPDM215Z: Leading Change in Healthcare
This module will develop critical insights into diverse approaches to leading and sustaining change, implementing innovation and improving health and care services. You will acquire skills in quality improvement methodology, emphasising the use of continuous process and outcome data to support sustainable improvement. The module critically appraises implementation science, examining core theories, models, and practices within contemporary health and care contexts. The role of psychological safety as a foundation for effective change will be explored. Students will analyse behaviour change and sociological models of implementation, evaluating how these frameworks inform strategies to increase the uptake, application, and sustainability of evidence-based practices.
You will develop the skills to use Quality Improvement tools and techniques as well as identifying and appraising the leadership skills and personal qualities required to do so. The module will enable you to strategize for achieving change in an area of healthcare practice. You will critically consider how research evidence, learning from reflection, and locally generated data can be integrated to achieve evidence-based change in practice.
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HPDM216Z: Future Health
With a focus on outcomes-based healthcare, epidemiology, public health and prevention of disease, you will consider the possibilities and effects of different healthcare systems, going beyond data analytics and artificial intelligence to look at societies’ expectations and the way systems will adapt and evolve. You will consider the role of digital health, and how to manage and evaluate telehealth/digital health/IT related change.
You will explore future healthcare needs and investigate how complex healthcare systems and data analytics using real time metrics can be harnessed to bring about sustainable, equitable improvements in care and public health across the world. You will take an explicit and in-depth view of epidemiological principles, disease surveillance, and health promotion strategies to consider public health responses for global disasters (such as the pandemic; Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]). You will appraise the potential of data analytics to transform the quality and value of healthcare “from bedside to board” through patient-centred and consumer-led approaches, identify drivers to transform existing linear healthcare structures into complex systems, and consider the changing role of the human professional by exploring where humans add value to healthcare and where smart devices know patients better than their carers.
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HPDM217Z: Researching Professional Practice
In this module you will evaluate your practice as a professional through the lens of research and scholarship in healthcare professions education and leadership. You will be supported to appraise a variety of literature, identifying your own areas of interest and potential gaps in what is known. You will learn about data collection and analysis, ethics, the positionality of the researcher and potential career pathways for scholarship in healthcare professions education. You will complete a literature review of your own, design a small-scale research project and write a proposal for funding.
This module aims to support healthcare professionals to undertake scholarship and/or research with the potential to inform policy and practice. You will learn about research design and methods, including a range of literature review methodologies and approaches to qualitative and quantitative research.
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HPDM218Z: Strategic Business Project for Healthcare
Healthcare leaders are responsible for developing and implementing major projects that contribute towards organisational strategic objectives. This module consolidates your learning across the programme and applies new knowledge to a real-world situation. You will complete a situational analysis of your organisational context to identify an area for improvement, with a focus either on enabling one of the three shifts from “Fit for the Future: 10-year health plan for England” or one of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) strategic priorities. Consulting with stakeholders, you will use this analysis to propose an innovation or improvement project, which you may start to implement during the programme.
The module aims to equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct a successful strategic management project, including project scoping, systems thinking and research design. Students will reflect on the organisational impact of such a piece of strategic work and apply a range of frameworks to structure analytical thinking, apply techniques to complete the required research, and demonstrate personal effectiveness. Identifying barriers and understanding the principles of effective project management will be introduced to ensure successful implementation.
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HPDM219Z: Management and Leadership in Healthcare
This module explores theoretical knowledge and practical standards and competencies contributing to the effective management and leadership of sustainable health and care systems. You will apply this to your professional context to add value to self, team, community and organisational settings.
You will examine human behaviour in health and care environments to support sustainable practices. This includes evaluation of factors that influence team dynamics, team management, organisational interdependencies and their integration and impact on employee relations.
You will appraise theory and evidence, drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives on integrated governance, communication, safety culture, speaking up, self-management, decision-making and project management.
The aim of the module is to provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge, behaviours and attitudes to enable you to manage and lead multi-professional teams within complex systems of care.
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