MSc Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership at University of Bedfordshire

Programme overview

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, for those aspiring to support, lead and manage healthcare provision in the UK and abroad. You 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.

Faculty: School of Society, Community and Health | Department: Social Sciences | Study mode: full-time; part-time | Intake: September | Location: Luton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Units include Collaborative leadership in integrated health and care systems; Principles and application of health economics; Research methods 1: setting deep foundations; Research methods 2: design, data collection and ethics.

Career pathways

Career opportunities include health services evaluation and research manager, health informatics/data analyst, health economist, health policy adviser and digital health transformation lead; it is also a pathway for allied health professionals to specialise in integrated care systems.

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Application information

Entry requirements

2:2 Honours degree or equivalent in a related subject area.

Domestic applicants: GBP 11,000 for the whole programme (2027/28). The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2027/28 is £11,000. Source

International applicants: GBP 18,250 for the whole programme (2027/28). The full-time standard fee for a taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2027/28 is £18,250. Source

Intake: September

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