入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：
Applicants should usually hold a Bachelors degree (UK Lower Second/2.2 or above), or equivalent qualification from a recognised British/overseas university. However, every applicant is assessed individually on their own merit. Higher level professional qualifications may also be accepted. Relevant work experience could be an additional benefit where applicants have not reached the standard entry requirements, although it is not an admissions requirement for this particular degree programme.
英语要求：
Non-native speakers of English will normally be required to have IELTS 6.5 or above (or equivalent).
Please note that the University of Surrey offers English language programmes and is also an IELTS Test Centre.
学费 Tuition Fee： 2011/2012 12650pounds
课程特征 Course Features
The programme aims to provide a high-quality, vocational education which is intellectually rigorous and up-to-date as well as relevant to the needs of existing and future managers, executives and clinicians in the health care sector. The programme has a business management orientation and draws on a broad base of management theory and examples to explain and analyse the sector.
The programme is designed to provide you with concepts, models, techniques and examples, which will enable you to improve the provision of care to patients.
It is based on a group of eight specially designed modules and a research-based dissertation to give you a thorough grounding in the basic management disciplines, followed by specialist modules in particular aspects of health care management.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Module Overview
This programme comprises eight taught modules and a research-based dissertation.
Compulsory Modules
Operational Management in Health Care
This module provides detailed insights into the concepts of managing people, information and services. These concepts are operationalised into the management challenges of running a successful health service unit.
Financial Management
This module provides the foundations for understanding, analysing and interpreting financial information, and enables you to apply accounting principles and financial theory across management disciplines and organisations.
Health Care Quality Management
This module develops the notion of delivery of a quality service in health care settings. It focuses on management as a means to achieve quality standards and patient satisfaction.
Health Care Systems, Structures and Functions
This module explores the complex management and administrative demands of a modern health system. Its role in the programme is to apply the general management principles, learned in other prescribed modules, to health care.
Organisational Behaviour
This module integrates the study of forms, structures and processes of organisations with the human aspects of psychology at work. The module provides an insight into the fundamentals on which organisations are built and provides analytical processes for understanding behaviour at work and managerial processes.
Professionals in Health Care
An issue in all health care systems is that of working with, managing and developing professionals. This module explores a wide range of issues associated with professionals, professionalism and professional bodies in health care organisations.
Health Economics
This module will introduce health economics and explore the notion of scarcity, which is as relevant in the health sector as it is in other sectors. Whatever the level of expenditure on health care, there will always be unmet demand and it is important that these resources are applied in the best ways possible. It covers the use of markets as an allocation mechanism and looks at a range of economic evaluation methods for decision making by managers and policy makers.
Research Methods
Introducing the process of research project formulation and the key elements of research design, this module will prepare you to design and execute their research study for their dissertation in a systematic and scientific manner.
Programme Structure and Modules
Module Matrix 1 – Full-time Study
Semester 1 Credits
Health Care Systems, Structures and Functions 15
Health Care Quality Management 15
Organisational Behaviour 15
Research Methods 15
Semester 2 Credits
Operational Management in Health Care 15
Financial Management 15
Health Economics 15
Professionals in Health Care 15
Dissertation 60
Module Matrix 2–Part-time Day Release Study
Year 1 (Semester 1) Credits
Health Care Systems, Structures and Functions 15
Organisational Behaviour 15
Year 1 (Semester 2) Credits
Operational Management in Health Care 15
Financial Management 15
Year 2 (Semester 1) Credits
Health Care Quality Management 15
Research Methods 15
Year 2 (Semester 2) Credits
Health Economics 15
Professionals in Health Care 15
Dissertation 60
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：
Teaching and Assessment
Our teaching strategy provides a combination of lectures, seminars, discussion groups, video and case study analysis. We believe that a variety of teaching methods allows us to satisfy most individual learning styles and preferences at some point in the programme. The programme is specifically designed to provide a balanced assessment strategy because different people have different strengths and weaknesses in the various assessment options that are available. Consequently we try to ensure that you and your fellow students are exposed to a range of assessment techniques, and that you are not penalised if one particular approach does not suit your particular style.
You will tackle written assignments in the essay style, which test your ability to synthesise information and to compare and contrast theory with practical examples, as well as traditional examinations which provide an opportunity for you to demonstrate how well you can take information and solve problems under time-constrained conditions, just as you might be asked to do in the workplace.
We also recognise that in modern health care organisations, people rarely work independently; therefore some of the written and oral assessments are in pairs or groups. This allows you to develop the ‘soft’ skills of communication, coordination, teamworking, time management, and project management, all of which are increasingly important in high-performance organisations.
Industry Links
The School of Management and its academic staff have a number of strong links with the health care sector industry. We have four visiting academic staff with strong health service delivery links including Professor Matthew Swindells, former chief policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Health and Colonel John Burgess, Assistant Director Clinical Services at the Army Primary Health Care Service. From time to time we invite managers from industry to come to talk to students about their experiences of managing health services.
International Relevance
There is little doubt that globalisation brings many challenges for organisations. It is highly likely that after graduating with the MSc Health Care Management, you may spend at least part of your career interfacing with different health services. You will encounter management problems which are largely created by the cross-cultural nature of the modern health care organisation. To prepare you for this environment we have deliberately designed a programme which is truly global in terms of its content and focus and we have recruited staff with considerable international experience.
Research Interests
Our research looks at three broad areas. First, we are interested in the uptake, spread and sustainability of innovations in a health care setting. Funded projects include an evaluation of the modernisation of stroke services (with Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charitable Trust funding), and the promotion of innovative approaches to workforce development within health care organisations. An NHS SDO-funded programme has contributed to the theory of disseminating and implementing complex, service-level innovation in health care. It involves a systematic approach to understanding the framework for spread of innovation and organisational change.
Second, we are interested in patient involvement in patient safety issues. Current projects include exploring ways of developing an active role for patients in challenging and educating health professionals’ actions, as well as exploring how patients make sense of the whole safety agenda within a hospital and community setting.
Third, we are interested in the role and development of managers in health care organisations. We currently have two NHS SDOfunded projects which are exploring the role of front line managers in health organisations and also the development of different approaches to talent management and succession planning in health systems.
This work has also directly influenced the work of government change agencies including the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (formerly the Modernisation Agency) in England, the National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare in Wales, and the Chief Scientist’s Office in Scotland, as well as the Australian National Institute of Clinical Studies.
Staff perspective
其它信息 Other Information：
Industry Links
The School of Management and its academic staff have a number of strong links with the health care sector industry. We have four visiting academic staff with strong health service delivery links including Professor Matthew Swindells, former chief policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Health and Colonel John Burgess, Assistant Director Clinical Services at the Army Primary Health Care Service. From time to time we invite managers from industry to come to talk to students about their experiences of managing health services.
International Relevance
There is little doubt that globalisation brings many challenges for organisations. It is highly likely that after graduating with the MSc Health Care Management, you may spend at least part of your career interfacing with different health services. You will encounter management problems which are largely created by the cross-cultural nature of the modern health care organisation. To prepare you for this environment we have deliberately designed a programme which is truly global in terms of its content and focus and we have recruited staff with considerable international experience.
Research Interests
Our research looks at three broad areas. First, we are interested in the uptake, spread and sustainability of innovations in a health care setting. Funded projects include an evaluation of the modernisation of stroke services (with Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charitable Trust funding), and the promotion of innovative approaches to workforce development within health care organisations. An NHS SDO-funded programme has contributed to the theory of disseminating and implementing complex, service-level innovation in health care. It involves a systematic approach to understanding the framework for spread of innovation and organisational change.
Second, we are interested in patient involvement in patient safety issues. Current projects include exploring ways of developing an active role for patients in challenging and educating health professionals’ actions, as well as exploring how patients make sense of the whole safety agenda within a hospital and community setting.
Third, we are interested in the role and development of managers in health care organisations. We currently have two NHS SDOfunded projects which are exploring the role of front line managers in health organisations and also the development of different approaches to talent management and succession planning in health systems.
This work has also directly influenced the work of government change agencies including the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (formerly the Modernisation Agency) in England, the National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare in Wales, and the Chief Scientist’s Office in Scotland, as well as the Australian National Institute of Clinical Studies.