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Why choose the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Education


98% of our Nursing graduates are in graduate-level employment (Guardian, 2024)

100% of Health graduates went into highly skilled employment or further education (HESA, 2023)

£5,000 a year available with the NHS bursary.

About the course

This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to provide effective leadership and management of others in your role within the healthcare team and the wider health and social care sector through a critical reflective account of yourself. This course will appropriately challenge and develop your current leadership and management practice. Course contents are based upon the current challenges in healthcare delivery in the 21st century. The course primarily seeks to address a key question: what are the strategies to enable healthcare leaders balance the requirements of an increasingly complex and evolving healthcare environment with the challenges of meeting patient expectations?

What will you study?


Leadership And Supervision In Healthcare

The aim of this unit is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to provide effective leadership, management and supervision of others within the healthcare team and the wider health and social care sector through a critical reflective account of yourself

This unit will challenge and develop your current leadership and management practice. This syllabus is based upon the current challenges   in healthcare delivery in the 21st century.  The unit seeks to address a key question: what are the strategies to enable healthcare leaders balance the requirements of an increasingly complex and evolving healthcare environment with the challenges of meeting patient expectations?

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.9 and 1.10

Pillar 2:   2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7  2.8, 2.9, 2.10 and 2.11

Pillar 4:  4.4, 4.5 and 4.6.

How will you be assessed?


This unit has both formative and summative assessments as follows:


Formative

  •  Produce a mind-map of your leadership and management style that you will discuss with your peers (Formative Week 3)

Summative

  • Poster: poster describing and critically analysing one human factor and one design issue from a practice environment the student is familiar with and providing leadership learning from this
  • Review a budget from your work place or a budget provided by the unit lead, reflecting specifically at maintaining and keeping services whilst acknowledging the financial constraints of this.

Careers


The skills, knowledge and experience that you gain on this course will equip you to understand how to be an effective leader and how to manage your team.

Entry Requirements

Registration with either The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Entry Requirements

Registration with either The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)Registration with either The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Fees for this course

UK

The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

International

The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.

For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees

If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

Fees for this course

UK

The standard fee for the MBA for students starting in the academic year 2025/26 is £15,400. This is the cost of the whole course.

Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk

International

The 2025/26 academic year standard international fee for an MBA course up to 15 months is £18,000.

For more information on our MBA fees, please see international fees

If you have any questions around international fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk

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