University of Surrey
Surrey, England, UK
12mths full-time; 60mths part-time
Our Delivering Quality Healthcare MSc has been created for experienced healthcare professionals and is designed to empower you to operate at an advanced level within your field. The programme is informed by the current healthcare agenda and supports the transformation of healthcare, enabling more integrated care to drive the quality care agenda.
Programme overview
Contemporary healthcare professionals require high level professional knowledge as well as in-depth understanding of the context within which healthcare is managed and delivered. This approach ensures safety in the clinical setting through the implementation of evidence-based practice. The delivery of high quality healthcare is as much about understanding the context and bigger picture, as it is about modern advances in healthcare. Often, problems affecting one area of practice may have their origins in another. This highlights the need to work in an integrated, solution-focused way.
The curriculum of this programme reinforces the need for the professions to revalidate their registration with the regulatory bodies by demonstrating improvement in their care delivery through lifelong learning. Staff in the School of Health Sciences are motivated to support students to meet the challenges they face in their practice with a solution-focussed approach, utilising the existing evidence base whilst demonstrating creativity in their own research approaches to further enhance professional knowledge.
The programmes aim to create managers and practitioners able to:
- Innovate in healthcare delivery to improve the patient experience
- Lead, commission or implement change that results in improved health outcomes for patients
- Understand how to measure quality, see patient safety as paramount and know how to recognise systems and processes that are more or less likely to have safe outcomes for patients
- Integrate care rather than work as unidisciplinary teams or organisations
- Take advantage of technology to improve direct patient care
- Make sense of the growing value of computerised health, social care and other ‘big data’ sources
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
The Faculty is the largest within the University with 2,000 full-time and nearly 2,000 part-time students. The Faculty is committed to excellence in teaching and research. In the latest UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), we were rated one of the top eight UK institutions for Biosciences, health and veterinary research.
Health Sciences at Surrey
The University of Surrey is a leading innovator and research hub for future technology in healthcare. The mission of the School of Health Sciences is to improve patient care experience and embrace the philosophy of integrated care and development of systems, to mobilise health technology.
We are devoted to ensuring that healthcare professionals are challenged educationally to enable them to deliver and support high quality healthcare for service users and carers. Our research and educational provision meets the needs of policy agendas in integrated care and eHealth.
Our programmes are designed to fulfil the requirements of educating innovative and leading health care professionals in both the United Kingdom and Internationally. Our nursing programmes are currently ranked second in the UK by The Complete University Guide 2016.
Our expertise is focused on:
- Cancer care
- Long-term conditions and the elderly
- Acute and emergency care
- Maternal and family health
- Health care systems and policy
Entry requirements
Students will normally hold a previously accumulated credit volume of 360 FHEQ Level 4-6 credits, of which at least 120 will be at FHEQ Level 6. Students should be working/ have recent experience in a relevant healthcare setting.
Students who do not meet these requirements should seek advice from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences as it may not exclude you from applying for our modules and programmes of study.
How to apply
For more information on the course and how to apply please visit the course website.
General enquiries:
+44 (0)1483 681 681
Admissions enquiries:
+44 (0)1483 682 222
admissions@surrey.ac.uk