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Prof Christine Edwards
Business School
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
KT2 7LB

T: 0208 547 2000
c.edwards@kingston.ac.uk

Modules

Strategic Health Management and Governance in Context provides an understanding of the organisational, political, and socio-economic contexts shaping the direction of healthcare systems and analyses developments in healthcare management and issues of governance and accountability in the UK and internationally.

Leading and Managing People in Health critically evaluates the theory and practice of effective leadership and management in modern, complex healthcare organisations and identifies the characteristics of successful organisations, groups and individuals within the context of healthcare.

Managing Information in Health explores the use of information as a strategic resource in supporting the delivery of health and social care services, and examines the enabling role of IT in facilitating communication and collaboration among professionals and service users in this context.

Managing Health Services for Quality introduces the concepts of service operations management applicable to the health and social care environment through the provision of a methodology for the planning, quality measurement and control of resources.

Financial Resource Management in Health examines financial management issues in healthcare organisations from a variety of analytical perspectives, providing the knowledge to understand and assess

financial performance in a health context.

Health Services Marketing outlines and measures the effectiveness of the range of approaches available within the private sector which can be used to leverage improvements in health service design and delivery.

Organisational Change in Health provides students with an understanding of the concept and tools of organisational change and development and their implications for leadership in health settings.

International Health Policy (elective) provides students with an understanding of health management and policy in an international context.

Health Economics (elective) provides an understanding of the functioning of the health care systems and issues concerning scarcity in the allocation of health care.

Research Methods in Health Management provides an understanding of research methods required for the successful completion of a dissertation, including student development of a research proposal on a topic of their own choice under the guidance of a supervisor.

Dissertation is a substantial piece of written work reporting on research based on a chosen topic.

 

Posted: 25 March 2011