该硕士课程旨在为学生提供发展，综合经验，专业和组织知识和技能的严格框架，以此作为提高医疗质量的基础。我们将关注改善质量的各个方面，包括公共政策和组织策略，治理和风险管理，领导力，专业行为的改变以及服务用户的参与。该理科硕士课程将围绕“医疗科学学院”的实施研究重点提供“教学研究”。该课程的重要组成部分围绕Rycroft Malone教授的“卫生服务研究实施促进行动”（PARIHS）框架进行，使学生对现代医疗环境中的尖端实施问题有深入的了解。
The MSc Leading Quality Improvement will support you to become an expert in health care quality improvement and innovation based on effectiveness (the use of evidence), efficiency (service reliability), and acceptability (the service user experience). Using leading evidence based research well ensure you can, as the next generation of improvement and innovation experts, apply this evidence in practice making research real, and impacting directly on the quality of frontline services.<br>Youll develop skills to help you identify and explore problems and opportunities in order to deliver valuable solutions to improve healthcare in practice. All of this will be supported by developing your critical thinking and ability to research the problems and opportunities you face, and help you to identify the cutting edge solutions. Well help you to gain insight into your own leadership preferences and styles in order to lead and challenge others to develop health services. <br>This is a very broad qualification that appeals to a wide variety of people in clinical and non-clinical roles working in any area that healthcare is delivered or it's delivery monitored. We attract students from very diverse backgrounds including nursing, medical, allied health professionals (e.g., Therapy professionals, paramedics, laboratory staff), NHS and wider healthcare management, the Royal College of Veterinary Nurses and journalism.<br> Attention will be paid to the components of improving quality, including public policy and organisational strategy, governance and risk management, leadership, professional behaviour change, and service user involvement. The MSc provides a focus for research into teaching around the School's research expertise in implementation.<br><br>Careers<br>This course is intended to support the academic, professional and career progression of healthcare professionals working in, or aspiring to clinical leadership and quality roles within UK and international health care organisations. The learning within the programme will also be of key relevance to professionals from social care and related policy areas, especially those working in leadership roles. During recent years several students have secured promotions whilst undertaking the programme and were supported with coaching from the course lead, other students have developed their confidence and applied for new and larger roles that have developed their career, or taken them onto new roles and a number have secured full time study on PhD's, as they continue their academic development.