Swansea University

Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation), MSc / PGDip / PGCert

Swansea UniversityBay Campus, United Kingdom

Course overview

Do you want to play a key role in the transformation of health and care systems? Do you want to challenge the status quo and use your innovative ideas to develop systems and services that benefit both the patient and organisation? This course is designed to better equip middle and senior managers within health and social care systems in the UK and globally, to lead transformational change and drive innovation within healthcare systems, processes and technologies.

The increasing need for value-driven health and care systems, requires leaders that are capable of driving organisational and system-wide transformations. The future challenges call for a radical new approach, underpinned by prudent principles, to lead change, harness new technologies and contest the purpose, value and location of existing service provision for citizens. This programme will enable you to realise innovation at a local level, with potential to lead through transformation at system level.

Using the Bevan Commission’s thinking and Innovators, along with perspective from NHS Innovation Leads, industry and the wider sector, you will gain first-hand, invaluable insights into the application of the theories you will study. Enhancing your management skills to correspond with the requirements in a modern health and care setting, is key in ensuring you are able to successfully guide organisations through innovative and transformational challenges. This pathway provides a vital academic and professional route for those seeking to advance careers in health leadership, policy, commissioning, digital transformation, and systems innovation.

Limited scholarships available: See Scholarships section below, for further details

Key highlights

  • Designed for middle and senior health and social care managers
  • Develops skills to lead transformational change across health systems
  • Draws on Bevan Commission thinking and its Innovators
  • Insights from NHS Innovation Leads, industry and the wider sector
  • Explores harnessing new technologies to redesign care services
  • Grounded in prudent, value-driven approaches to health and care

Entry requirements

  • Degree: 2:1 — 2.1

Scholarships

  • Chevening Scholarships

  • International Postgraduate Alumni Bursaries

    First Class - £5,000 per year; Second Class, First division - £3,000 per year; Second Class, Second division - £1,000 per year; Taught Masters to Research Degree - £3,000 per year subject to satisfactory progress.

  • Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)

    The SUIPRES Scholarship covers the difference between the International and the Home tuition fee rate for the duration of the PhD/Professional Doctorate programme.

Careers this course leads to

  • Health service manager
  • Healthcare transformation lead
  • Health policy adviser
  • Healthcare commissioning manager
  • Digital transformation manager (healthcare)
  • Health innovation lead

Cost of study

UK/Home: £7,050 per year | International: £11,400 per year

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Swansea University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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