Leadership and Management in Health Care

The Leadership and Management in Health Care course provides a greater understanding of how healthcare organisations work and the key role of the medical staff within it. This increased understanding gives the chance to become much more effective in initiating and managing quality change.

The five main academic components are:

1. An understanding of the strategic domain of healthcare settings
2. An understanding of the operational domain of healthcare settings
3. An understanding of the interpersonal domain of healthcare settings
4. An understanding of how these three domains relate to one another and the principal tasks and roles of management and leadership in healthcare systems.
5. Demonstrate some generic tools for leadership especially those related to teamwork and change and which help to make decisions in complex healthcare environments.

The module will illustrate the various ways in which finance, healthcare markets in different countries, organisational systems, and professionalism operate together. The relationship between these factors generates four basic themes:

1. Healthcare systems and the way they work
2. Leadership and the tasks involved in creating quality healthcare
3. Ways in which managers and leaders can be more effective.
4. Developing and implementing a plan for change including insights into how and why decisions are made

Effective participation in the case study scheduled for the last day will require a good understanding of these three themes and how healthcare organisations work. The post-course assignment makes possible more critical reflection of the course material.

Offered by Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and the Department for Continuing Education, the taught week is led by Professor Richard Canter, Visiting Professor of Surgical Education at the University of Oxford.

It features face-to-face lectures and tutorials in small groups.

Class sizes are kept small to allow full interaction with tutors. Study before and after the course is supported by a rich virtual learning environment.

Course fees for 2022 are currently to be confirmed.