Health & Social Care

This course develops enhanced service improvement skills to support innovation and productivity in the care environment. It enables you to:

• develop expertise in the application and evaluation of improvement science within complex and diverse organisational settings
• demonstrate self-direction and promote a culture of change and innovation throughout your organisation.

How you learn

At the course induction you receive course and school handbooks along with further details of study requirements for postgraduate study and the student support available to you, including the use of e-learning@tees. Members of the course team attend the induction to give you the opportunity to ask any questions.

Action learning provides you with the opportunity to reflect on real-life problems and issues, to share these with colleagues on the programme in order to provide support and to take action in the workplace. This strategy provides an opportunity for constructive and supportive challenging, and promotes a questioning approach to change existing practice.

The focus of workplace learning in the course builds on your existing skills as well as providing the opportunity for the application of service improvement tools and techniques to improve the quality of care in real projects in practice. Workplace learning is an integral part of action learning as detailed above. The action learning sets give you the opportunity to develop peer support mechanisms and share knowledge.

How you are assessed

Evidence-based Improvement
You submit a 4,000-word essay on the key internal and external drivers for your improvement project.

Tools, Techniques and Metrics for Improvement
You submit a 4,000-word report based on the appropriate selection, critical evaluation and application of the tools, techniques and metrics used within your project.

Service Improvement - A Personal Development Account
You submit a critical evaluation of your identified learning needs and the approaches you take to address these.

You also submit a portfolio of evidence (4,000 words) which critically reflects on the process of planning, implementing and evaluating your identified improvement work.

Entry requirements

Applicants will normally have an honours degree in a health or social care-related subject or in leadership or management. Applicants with other qualifications and experience may be considered if they can provide evidence of their ability to study at master’s level. Such applicants will be invited to discuss individual needs with the programme team and programme leader.

Students will also need to be in a position within their organisation which enables them to introduce, lead and support research-based service improvement.

For additional information please see the undergraduate and postgraduate entry requirements in our admissions section

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