This unit will challenge and develop your wider understanding of the context in which healthcare services operate and is built upon latest research in the field of healthcare management. The unit will address challenges facing healthcare delivery in the 21st century, with a focus on local, regional and global policies that healthcare leaders have to understand and develop to meet the needs of increasingly complex and evolving healthcare environments. Your current leadership practices will be addressed by concentrating on strategies that enable healthcare leaders to balance the requirements of an increasingly complex and evolving healthcare environment whilst meeting the challenges of modern societies. The unit also examines issues faced by health care organisations when dealing with the use of information technology in the form of information systems by examining the latest research in the field of healthcare informatics.

Course Details

The syllabus covers the key areas needed for healthcare management in the 21st century, namely:

 The social, technical, political, economic and ethical context in which healthcare operates.

 Explore real world experiences of social healthcare, population health and wellbeing.

 Links between models of health care provision and social health agendas and the World Health Organization targets.

 How to develop critical understanding of governance, legislation and policy issues that impact upon healthcare provision.

 Application of models of creative and innovative business

development to engage with entrepreneurial vs humanitarian debates and make recommendations for implementation.

 How to utilise leadership theory and research to support your personal and professional development as a healthcare leader.

 How to lead the challenges of team dynamics, team conflict, and team development.

 How to lead change in an ever-evolving healthcare environment.

 The complexities of leading within an organisational context.

 The impact of healthcare politics on leadership and service delivery.

 Strategies to support leaders to ethically manage available time, finance and resources.

 History of health computing

 Hospital Information Systems (IS) - Patient Administration Systems (PAS)

 Hospital IS – Electronic Patient Records (EPR)

 System security and patient confidentiality

 E-Health in the community