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Why choose the School of Applied Social Sciences


Accredited by the UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI), opening the way to CMI Chartered Manager status.

We collaborate with Healthwatch Luton to provide work-based learning and engagement with health and wellbeing boards in Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes.

Our social sciences courses rank 7th overall in their subject field in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024; they rank in 1st place for assessment, with top 10 rankings for teaching, engagement and learning community.

About the course

If you aspire to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision, in the UK and abroad, this 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 bodies. You are encouraged to adopt a critical lens when exploring real-life issues alongside the challenges of planning cost-effective funding and joined-up care, with the aim of improving health outcomes.

Course accreditation

CMI

The course is dual-accredited by the UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI), offering successful graduates eligibility for a CMI L7 qualification in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.

Industry links

We collaborate with Healthwatch Luton as well as the local health and wellbeing boards for Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes, offering students opportunities for work-based learning; interaction with health leaders; and experience of real-world settings and contemporary issues.

Your student experience

The course is offered at three levels: PgCert (60 credits), PgDip (120 credits) and Master’s (180 credits); it’s your choice how far you take your studies.

Learn from an industry-experienced academic team, many of whom maintain relevant registrations via practice or CPD, or are research active across multiple areas.

Local leaders from care boards and other relevant organisations contribute to course delivery, giving you practical experience of working in the system.

Work with Healthwatch Luton to research, explore and design health services for different groups.

Experience field visits to health and wellbeing boards to observe proceedings and gain experience of a range of real-world settings and contemporary issues.

What will you study?


ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ing our Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership MSc course will equip you with the in-depth knowledge and skills to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision through integrating a range of health and social care services. To develop your practice, you will be equipped with the critical leadership knowledge and capabilities used to strengthen partnership and collaborative working across various sectors in our Collaborative Leadership in Integrated Health and Care Systems unit to understand how this instils compassion and high-quality performance and collaborative work practices at every level of health and care. Similarly, our unit in Strategic Management and Leadership of Organisational Mental Health and Wellbeing will allow you to understand the impact of mental health and wellbeing on organisational performance as well as the complexities of managing wellbeing in an organisation. Furthermore, you will be exposed to the contemporary approaches in creating healthy work systems and a positive culture of mental health and wellbeing.

It is also important that you consider the economic factors affecting the health and social care sector so that it can continue to produce financially sustainable systems and effective strategies to meet increased demand and inform policy. This is where our unit in The Principles and Application of Health Economics will provide you with the foundations to make cost-effective decisions around the intervention and treatments as well as develop your understanding on how economic models can influence leadership decision making processes when it comes to allocating finite resources around in a health and social care organisation. This course also offers a range of optional units for you to explore, such as our unit in Health Informatics that will allow you to gain a critical awareness of the ethical and practical complexity of managing health data across integrated care.

If you are passionate about sustainability, you will be able to integrate this practice with leadership qualities in our Implementing Sustainable Lifestyle Redesigns in Allied Health Professionals Care unit.Here, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to work within NHS environments, social and community care, social enterprises or charities to implement a sustainable lifestyle redesign. You may also choose to develop your understanding of Health and Social Care Inequalities while analysing research to reduce inequalities in health and social care. You will also consider different social categories such as gender, age, race, sexuality, disability and mental health to understand how these factors influence the social care people receive.

Finally, you will have the option to complete a Research or Work-Based Dissertation in Integrated Healthcare and Strategic Leadership. If you choose to engage with the research option, this unit will prompt you to actively research a question related to integrated health and social care practice or organisation. Through working with a supervisor, you will study a topic of your interest in more depth, particularly a core topical issue facing integrated healthcare settings. You will then perform an original analysis based on theory and literature acquired from the course alongside your own research and subsequently apply this learning to a specific research topic in the broad field of integrated healthcare. Alternatively, the Work-Based Dissertation will give you the opportunity to join a health and/or social care organisation to complete a minimum of 100 hours as you deliver on a work-based project aimed at creating change within integrated healthcare services. You will develop a personal development plan to monitor and develop your employability skills alongside this project while practicing in a leadership role in the health and social care workforce.

How will you be assessed?


The assessment strategy is one that draws on applied principles in addressing challenges faced in the context of integrated healthcare pathways. Consequently a wide range of assessment that are informed by the wealth of practice information the workforce will face are incorporated into the assessment on this course; including but not limited to; work-based learning portfolios applied research dissertation e-learning modules posters oral presentations case-study-based assessments and reports.

Careers


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. This is also a pathway for allied health professionals to specialise in integrated care systems and provisions.

Entry Requirements

2.2 honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area

Entry Requirements

2.2 honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area2.2 honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area

Entry Requirements

2.2 honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area

Entry Requirements

2.2 honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area2.2 honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area

Fees for this course

UK

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £10,000 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

International 2024/25

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £16,900

If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

Fees for this course

UK

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £10,000 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

International 2024/25

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £16,900

If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

Fees for this course

UK

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £10,000 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

International 2024/25

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £16,900

If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

Fees for this course

UK

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £10,000 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

International 2024/25

The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £16,900

If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

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