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

Arab Leadership University

Arab Leadership University

Master's

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

Arab Leadership University

Arab Leadership University (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, Arabic

Tuition fees

  • INTERNATIONALFree (online)

About Arab Leadership University

Fully online Arabic digital university serving the League of Arab States.

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:** Arab Leadership University **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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