Managing Partnerships in Health and Social Care – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The programme consists of four core modules:
* Partnership working in health and social care This module aims to provide students with knowledge about partnership working for service users; organisational barriers to partnership working; governance of partnership working; partnerships and public sector reform and working with the voluntary sector and private agencies.
* Outcomes, performance and resources This core module includes planning and evaluating public sector outcomes; performance management in the public sector; efficiency and value for money; public sector financial management and financial and resource management strategy, systems and policies.
* Organisation development in health and social care Students will develop concepts and definitions of organisational development; processes of OD diagnosis, intervention and review; contemporary OD frameworks; strengths and limitations of OD frameworks; tools for change and their relevance to health and social care.
* Strategic commissioning or managing finance This module enables students to learn more about the new context for strategic commissioning of public services; concepts and models of commissioning and procurement; the evolving practice of commissioning and procurement and joint commissioning (constraints and resource dependencies).

For the MSc you select two options from a range of modules offered by HSMC and INLOGOV (or by other departments within the University in consultation with the programme tutors). MSc students complete a 10,000-word dissertation on an agreed topic in the area of partnership working. Diploma participants complete the same programme of modules as their MSc colleagues, but are exempt from the dissertation element.

To aid those travelling from distance, modules tend to be taught in intensive blocks. Modules are assessed by a combination of academic and reflective assignments.