100% online MBA Healthcare Management
Gain the skill set to excel as a healthcare leader
180
£13,440
Nowhere is effective leadership more important than in healthcare contexts, where, as recognised by the UK’s National Health Service, good management is vital to ensuring maximum healthcare value is delivered from the often-limited resources available.
At York, we’re passionate about sharing our healthcare management insights with students. This online postgraduate programme focuses on the unique challenges faced by healthcare leaders working within a complex, professional and diverse environment. In addition to fundamental business and leadership knowledge, it also overviews the policy and managerial strategies needed to improve healthcare organisations and outcomes. You will be actively encouraged to apply your workplace experience to your learning activities.
Delivered entirely online and part-time, the programme is designed to help working healthcare professionals balance the requirements of an MBA with important life responsibilities including work, family and friends.
This online MBA Healthcare Management is designed to equip you with the diverse skills, knowledge and competencies needed enhance your career prospects and capability to lead and manage in healthcare contexts. The programme combines business and leadership essentials including strategy, finance and marketing with knowledge and skills in areas unique to healthcare management including quality, policy and economics.
Your learning will also be enhanced by insights from the University of York’s key research themes affecting the modern workplace including globalisation, the ongoing revolution in information technology, risk and financial stability, ethics and business behaviour and the transformation of public services.
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If English isn’t your first language you may need to provide evidence of your ability, we accept:
Applicants who have completed a degree in English in the last seven years or who have completed work experience at an English-speaking organisation within the last two years may also be considered.
Strategy in Practice (15 credits)
This module explores management strategy and focuses on being a leader for the future. It provides an overview of strategic management theories and pays particular attention to ethical leadership and global citizenship and their impact on organisations.
Managing Financial Resources and Risk (15 credits)
This module specially aims to give you an understanding of financial management, and the financial resources and risks within an organisation. It enables the interpretation of financial statements from business, facilitates investment and funding decisions perspectives, and explores a range of possible financial risks.
Leading and Managing Organisational Change (15 credits)
This module examines change practices within organisations. It aims to provide a critical introduction to theories of change and explores, through a variety of cases both real and simulated, how they can shape effective practice.
Marketing and Society (15 credits)
This module examines marketing for businesses in a global society and explores the marketing challenges that all organisations face. It aims to study marketing management for businesses in global settings and to develop the capacity to learn and engage with the opportunities and challenges of communicating brand images and corporate values across national, linguistic and cultural borders to a variety of consumers. It also considers a variety of methods, including new social media, as a mechanism of distributing knowledge and information.
Improving Quality in Healthcare (15 credits)
This module aims to develop a critical and practical understanding of leading continuous improvement within health and care systems in topics including: variation and its impact on care delivery, applying lean operations to health and care service delivery, how to foster and maintain an improvement culture and more.
Managing and Organising in Healthcare (15 credits)
This module aims to develop a critical and practical understanding of the challenges of organising, managing and leading change in healthcare as a distinctive sector or area of activity. You will learn about the wider policy context within which healthcare organisations operate, organisational culture in shaping practice and delivery and more.
Contemporary Challenges Healthcare Policy (15 credits)
This module provides a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary, global healthcare policy challenges, including analysing policy development processes, evaluating stakeholder engagement, exploring public health principles, examining digital health and analytics, addressing workforce development issues, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and developing effective communication and collaboration abilities in the context of healthcare policy.
Health Economics for Healthcare Managers (15 credits)
This module introduces students to health economics and its relevance to key agents, institutions and structures within healthcare. It provides a toolkit for evaluating interventions in terms of their ability to deliver value for money and a framework for understanding, measuring and addressing health inequalities.
Foundations of Business Consultancy (15 credits)
This module focuses on the research skills needed to perform consultancy within an organisation. It provides an introduction to a range of research skills which will enable consultancy work to be conducted within an organisation.
Consultancy Proposal and Pitch (15 credits)
This module encourages your creativity to produce a valid and robust proposal and pitch for a consultancy project. It provides the opportunity to create a valid and robust proposal for carrying out a consultancy piece of work within an organisation, including rigorous consideration of the ethics process.
MBA Consultancy Portfolio (30 credits)
This module is the culmination of the MBA journey. It encapsulates all the knowledge and experience that you have learned throughout your course and is presented in the framework of a portfolio exploring a management problem or issue. It allows you to apply your knowledge and skills learned throughout the course to a specific issue(s) identified within an organisation, to establish a method of researching it and to be able to present a rigorous and sound solution.