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MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare

The MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare has been designed for experienced managers and leaders working in the field of health within the public, private and independent sectors in the UK and abroad.

How will it help me?

In an increasingly competitive global environment, this programme provides health practitioners with an opportunity to develop their business and management skills as well as enhance their interprofessional practice. The pathway will address health care issues from global, interprofessional, multi-disciplinary, business-oriented and person centred perspectives.

This MBA is delivered through a partnership between The Business School and the Faculty of Health and Social Care. Staff from the Business School combine excellence in their academic disciplines with considerable business experience and active research in both the public and private sectors. The Faculty of Health and Social Care is a leading provider of health education in Kent with a particular focus on interprofessional teaching, learning and research.

What is distinctive about this programme?

• The attention and focus on the global changes and challenges within the health sector environment and the changing nature of the care contexts e.g. economic, ageing population, changes in family structures and the impact on professional identities;
• The teaching and skilled facilitation offered by a programme team with a long history working with health care practitioners and managers from a variety of contexts in both health and social care;
• The opportunity to work with leaders and managers in preparation for the current challenges and future 2020 environment;
• The credibility and reputation of the interprofessional learning and teaching communities which provide opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange;
• The opportunity to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds to develop a community of practice that we will encourage to continue beyond the end of the MBA programme;
• The residential sessions at the superb Salomons campus set within 36 acres of parkland; this beautiful venue provides a stimulating environment for intensive group and individual study.

What will I gain from it?

(i) a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of academic discipline in management and leadership or your area of professional practice;
(ii) a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship;
(iii) originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in your discipline;
(iv) conceptual understanding that enables you to:

• Critically evaluate current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline; and
• Evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses.

In addition to enhancing your professional practice, business and leadership skills, you will develop a rich understanding of existing and innovative practice in your chosen field.

Modules

Strategy
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of strategic concepts and in particular the importance of sustainable and competitive advantage in driving future strategy. The impact of the business environment and internal resources of organisations on strategic planning and choice will be critically examined in the context of achieving pragmatic strategic change.

Business Planning
This module introduces a range of analytical techniques to enable students to analyse and evaluate financial strategy and its alignment with corporate objectives, to critically appraise projects using a range of techniques and to evaluate risk and techniques for effective management. Students will work in teams to develop business plans as part of their assessment.

Marketing & Service Management
The aim of this module is to provide students with a critical understanding of the theory and application of strategic marketing service management – relevant to three distinct economic sectors (namely public, private and the not-for-profit.)

Leadership for Innovation and Enterprise
The aim of this module is to engage students who are potential healthcare leaders at a time of unpredictable transformation in healthcare in an exploration of the issues that will influence their practice. The main issues to be explored are leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship within healthcare organisations.

Transforming Healthcare Quality through Evaluating Outcomes
The aim of the module is to equip students to develop strategic decision making that is evidence based, measured and evaluated. Students will have the opportunity to critically appraise their own leadership role in promoting quality management infrastructures that measure key performance indicators.

Leading and Managing Change
This module will explore the practice and theory of leading and managing change and enable students to carry out research into a specific change within their area of interest.

Critical Enquiry and Analysis
This module will help students develop key skills of critical enquiry and evaluation of a range of data including prior research and policy. Understanding and applying different approaches to conducting research and analysing data will be a key foundation for the programme.

Management Project
This module requires students to undertake a research project in which they apply the knowledge and skills gained during the programme to explore a significant business management problem at a deeper and more sustained level of scholarship and to identify actions or recommendations that are likely to add value to their organisation and/or their chosen area of study.

Where will I study?

The programme is based at the Canterbury Campus. There will also be a series of short residential sessions at the Salomons Campus near Tunbridge Wells.

How will I be assessed?

Progress is assessed on an ongoing basis, through formative and summative assessments taking a number of different forms including debates, written reports, group and individual presentations, and online submissions.

Do I qualify?

To start the programme you need an appropriate honours degree with experience in leadership and/or management within the field of health care.

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