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Master's

MSc Health Service Management (UK/NHS) (Online)

University of Brigant

University of Brigant

Master's

MSc Health Service Management (UK/NHS) (Online)

University of Brigant

University of Brigant (online)

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Tuition

Free (online)

Degree

M.Sc.

Delivery

Full-time · Online

Duration

2 years (18 mo)

Language & requirements

Taught in: English

Tuition fees

  • INTERNATIONALFree (online)

About University of Brigant

Historic UK university (founded 1883) with Edinburgh campus and tuition-free online degrees.

Overview

This MSc is for people who already live with delayed discharge, winter plans, and the gap between a Scottish Government target and a ward that has no staff to meet it. University of Brigant teaches health service management as UK/NHS systems work—integration joint boards, territorial boards, and the politics of money flowing through Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland—not as a clinical conversion course. You will not be trained to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. You will be trained to write a board paper that a non-executive can interrogate, to read a waiting-list without worshipping the dashboard, and to keep one academic standard whether you sit in Edinburgh or study tuition-free online.

Delivered fully online with live seminars, recorded lectures, and tutor support.

**Award:** University of Brigant **Credits:** 36 | **Typical duration:** 2 years (18 months)

Course structure

4 terms · 16 modules · 36 credits

Module 1: NHS architecture in the UK and Scotland

  • UOB521·Territorial Boards, IJBs, and English ICS Comparators
    3 credits
  • UOB522·Statute, Directions, and Performance Frameworks
    3 credits
  • UOB523·Patient Safety Governance for Non-Registrants
    3 credits
  • UOB524·Identity-Checked Assessment and Board Writing
    3 credits

Module 2: Flow, winter, and unscheduled care

  • UOB525·Delayed Discharge as a Multi-Agency System
    3 credits
  • UOB526·Winter Plans, Surge, and Honest Capacity
    3 credits
  • UOB527·Planned Care Backlogs and Harm Stratification
    3 credits
  • UOB528·Social Care Markets and Package Delays
    3 credits

Module 3: Workforce, money, and industrial relations

  • UOB529·Agenda for Change Literacy without HR Theatre
    3 credits
  • UOB530·Financial Recovery Plans that Name Trade-Offs
    3 credits
  • UOB531·Whistleblowing, Duty of Candour, and Management Records
    3 credits
  • UOB532·Digital Records and Operational Data without Clinical Claims
    3 credits

Module 4: Capstone

  • UOB533·Public and Political Accountability of Health Boards
    3 credits
  • UOB534·Research Methods for Service Management
    3 credits
  • UOB535·Writing for Non-Executives and Integration Chairs
    3 credits
  • UOB536·Capstone: Anonymised NHS or Partner Operations File
    3 credits

Learning outcomes

  • Apply discipline-specific theory to complex professional problems
  • Design and execute research or applied projects to postgraduate standard
  • Communicate findings clearly to academic and industry audiences
  • Demonstrate ethical, inclusive practice in global workplaces
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